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About The Plaindealer. (Roseburg, Or.) 1870-190? | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1902)
f.k riiphi rw i.f Mm i iiKKn Kiid'W bill Hl.S" per year, pahl by the Male. I flu licit mpenk f lln comprnnatlcin he derive fmm fie paid hy private parties for mi rv'i-i h i i-ri'1-ri (1. Nor In It true that Ihe c ompcutxatlnn of t)u (lovernor anil the u iim-kj of olllce aKKi'Kitc Ji2i Tin' (ruth In tliut they arc Ii-im tlinn IVM). And then, inn ik you, I peculiar lauKuaKc employed by Mr. Chamberlain whin npi ukliiK of the rotiipi'iiHiitlon of the (inventor ami the eSccntary of State ami the JinU:c" i.f t he Htipri-ine Court. He say that their corn penxa t Ion has been Increased beyond Die t onM It ul lonal limit it ii 1 11 It ii it i 1 1 1 n t to ho ami ho. xccklm to Impress upon yuur minds that tin sum., iih nl loin are paid to tin in ax salaries In i imh of the ceeroftltiittoniil salaries'. I'mb island tin-, I am not, imr Ii Ihe Itcpuhlte an parly. opposed to flat xalarle liixt.ad of fee f.ir all state utile is cm the contrary, the Id publican party him ile. rlariil In fawn. :i ti. h,ii the llmt 1. 1 ile. I it, In fivnr. of Hal salaries. I am itlm ply showing. In w h.it I have i-ald rclatlv. to salaric'i, how xlutmcfully Mr. Cham brrlaln ha 1 1 1 1 -w 1 1 I I ami mlei present ! the fads for the purpose of k.iIiiIiik par tisan ail alit aKe Nor. when I Mate thai Ih. x.ilarj of Ihe Sn nlnry of Slate In but 2Xt do I In eluile xii. -h f i x tit h.- leeilvi x from piiv.iie parties for - uplex i.f records or llllnjf iloi'iiim nt x ee Tin le I no reiin.l re.iilr.l t i l.e kept nf such ft i x , an. I therefore I ilo not know, nor tloiw Mr 'hamlierlaln know, how inueh liny ai"Krei;ato nil dually, but 1 am liifornuil that salary an. I feex eninhlinil ilo not amount to flO.OUO a veai Hut mlii. I v.. ii. Mi i 'h;. ml., rial n wi.h mil talking of f. i x, hut of salaries, Ih.it which Ihe xtale pay- fur which v u have t.i pay lni: ),l I i nrn.'i k'. Is: "Sal ary ami cxpetixcs of bin ufll. e." II.H neither tin CiviriuT imr Stale Treasurer re ceive any f i whatever. so he cannot have bail In mltut "feex" when be ilc'.lhi rate, ly inlxreprrMenteil the aimiunt of their mi! a rim CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICIAL DUTIES. Mr "hamberlaln In Inxlrlil Altormy f.ir Multnomah County. Hln nalnry 1 t!0"0 per nniiuin lie ha two .bpullex whu are pahl $':frtf a year, an.l Ihexe salaries are fix in I by law Woul.l It be fair f..r nn to speak nf the .salary of Mr. Chamberlain am! expense nf hlx i. Ill inn. unlink' to I.'iKi" Ami yet that In what Mr. Chamber- lain ami hlx ih pullex tret fully one-thlr.l mere than the (Inventor of the State of i u. i:.. n. in. I liK clerks, reei Ive. AnJ I observe, by Ihe way. that Mr. Chamberlain hiui not rexlKiinl tin- o Mice nf lilstrl.t A...rney. lb mill ilrawx bin salary of $c per ye ar, pal. I him by Ihe pie of this xt ite. while he Ix travelliiK arouml the Mate telling the people why tin y xllouli: c leet hllll (IciVerilor of the state. If Mr. Chamberlain wi re xo i ai ne.-l ly wi clib cl to economy In public olllce a he would h u e you In 'Ii ve. lie inlnhl xi I a H i) forcible example by rexlKtitnK bis ftiMi-a-yt ar otllee unlll Ihe pnoent rampalun Is over. I i.mlit less the (Inventor woulil agree to reappoint him nt Ihe eml of that period, for tho Mate would save several hundred dollars in the me antime , and It Ii ce rtain that Mr. Chamberlain will want (he olllce of IMstrlct Attorney aftel Ihe campalKn Is over. I tu t I called yuur attention a while av ' t ' He fin't ( li.it Mr. Chamberlain com plaliix that Ihe salaries of the (Inventor and other stale oltle lals have been Increased beyond Ihe coiiHtltutlonal limit. He did pot particularly llnd fault with the salaries of the Justices of the .Supreme Court an I the (iovermir, but he erltlclsed the He. public an party for havliiK liii rnei d them "beynml the coiistltutlunal limit." Now thai nouiicls very well, Maudlin; by Itself, but taken in connection with the other portion of Mr. Chamberlain's) speech, It sound at least funny. After he has cov ered considerable other Ktound In bis speech, I llnd him miyliin this: "I have no doubt that Hie Ix ulslat ure bins the power to place each and nil of the ennui it ut lonal (illlei xi on Hat salarb n. notwIthstatiiMiiK an aparent IllnHa t Inn eontaliieil In Ihe coiixtllutloii Itself. " Vou l!l observe that this time he em 7