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Show WELL-PAID OFFICERS. To Whom Uncle Sam's Fattest Salaries Sal-aries Go. The best-paid officers of the Government Govern-ment are the President of the United States, the Ministers to England, France, Germany and Russia, and the Clerk of the United States Supreme Court. The first receives $50,000, the Ministers $17,-000, $17,-000, and the latter anywhere from $15,000 to $25,000 in the shape of fees. The next man on this list is General Sherman, who receives $13,500 a3 retired pay of the General of the army, and after him comes Admiral Porter, whose salary is- $13,000. Next in order are the men who hold the second-class missions, Austria, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, China, etc., who get $12,000, and the Collector of th6 port of New York, whose salary is. a similar amount. General Sheridan receives $11,-000, $11,-000, and Chief Justice Waite, $10,000. The. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and third-class foreign ministers are paid $10,000, and Vice Admirals of the navy, when they . are sea, which is -.seldom, get $9,000. On shore duty they get $8,000, and when on leave or waiting orders $7,000. Rear Admirals get $6,000, $5,000 and $4,000. There are quite a number of public servants who receive salaries of $8,000, including the members of the Cabinet, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Collectors of Customs at Philadelphia and Boston, the Naval Officer and Assistant Assist-ant Treasurer at New York, and Ihe attorney before the Court of Alabama Claims, although the latter official is not paid by the Government, but out of the Geneva award. The fourth-class fourth-class foreign ministers receive $7,500, which i3 the pay of the Major-General of the army. The Collectors of Customs at Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco are paid $7,000. The Circuit Cir-cuit Judges of the United States, the Superintendent of the Court Survey, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Treasurer of the United States, the Consul Generals at Paris, London, Rio de Janeiro, Liverpool and Havana, and some other consular offices, receive $6,000, and the Comptroller of the Currency Cur-rency gets the same amount, $1,000 of which is paid him for looking after the affairs of the defunct Freedman's Bank. Some of the consular officers make from $5,000 to $8,000 in fees, but they are very few. The entire number of public servants ser-vants who are paid more than $6,000 is less than one hundred. Chicago Inter-Ocean. |