POLITICAL PLATFORMS-DEMOCRATIC-Continued. by jury: freedom of the person defended by the writ of habeas corpus; liberty of personal contract untrammeled by sumptuary laws; supremacy of the civil over military authority; a well disciplined militia; the separation of church and state; economy in expenditures; low taxes, that labor may be lightly burdened; prompt and sacred fulfillment of public and private obligations; fidelity to treaties; peace and friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority, the vital principle of republics-these are doctrines which Democracy has established, approved by the nation, and they should be constantly invoked and enforced. We favor enactment and administration of laws giving labor and capital impartially their just rights. Capital and labor ought not to be enemies. Each is necessary to the other. Each has its rights, but the rights of labor are certainly no less "vested." no less "sacred" and no less "unalienable" than the rights of capital. Constitutional guarantees are violated whenever any citizen is denied the right to labor, acquire and enjoy property or reside where interests or inclination may determine. Any denial thereof by individuals, organizations or governments should be summarily rebuked and punished. tion. We oppose as fervently as did George Washington himself an indefinite, irresponsible, discretionary and vague absolutism and a policy of colonial exploitation, no matter where or by whom invoked or exercised. We believe, with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, that no government has a right to make one set of laws for those "at home" and another and a different set of laws, absolute in their character, for those "in the colonies." All men under the American flag are entitled to the protection of the institutions whose emblem the flag is, and if they are inherently unfit for those institutions, then they are inherently unfit to be members of the American body politic. Wherever there may exist a people incapable of being governed under American laws, in consonance with the American Constitution, that people ought not to be a part of the American domain. We insist that we ought to do for the Filipinos what we have done already for the Cubans, and it is our duty to make that promise now, and upon suitable guarantees of protection to citizens of our own and other countries resident there at the time of our withdrawal, set the Filipino people upon their feet, free and independent, to work out their own destiny. The endeavor of the Secdisre-retary of War, by pledging the Government's indorsement for "promoters" in the Philippine Islands, to make the United States a partner in speculative exploitation of the archipelago, which was only temporarily held up by the opposition of the Democratic senators in the last session, will, if successful, lead to entanglements from which it will be difficult to escape. We deny the right of any executive to gard any constitutional privilege or limitation. Obedience to the laws and respect for their requirements are alike the supreme duty of the citizen and the official. The military should be used only to support and maintain the law. We unqualifiedly condemn its employment for the summary banishment of citizens without trial, or for the control of elections. We approve the measure which passed the United States Senate in 1896, but which a Republican Congress has ever since refused to enact, relating to contempts in Federal courts and providing for trial by jury in cases of indirect contempt. The Democratic party has been, and will continue to be, the consistent opponent of that class of tariff legislation by which certain interests have been permitted, through congressional favor. to draw a heavy tribute from the American people. This monstrous perversion of those equal We favor liberal appropriations for the improve- opportunities which our political institutions were ment of waterways of the country. When any established to secure has caused what may once waterway, like the Mississippi River, is of suffi- have been infant industries to become the greatcient importance to demand special aid of the est combinations of capital that the world has government, such aid should be extended with ever known. These especial favorites of the govdefinite plan of continuous work until permanent ernment have, through trust methods, been conImprovement is secured. We oppose the Repub-verted into monopolies, thus bringing to an end lican policy of starving home development in or- domestic competition, which was the only alleged der to feed the greed for conquest and the apcheck upon the extravagant profits made possible petite for national "prestige" and display of by the protective system. These industrial comstrength. Large reductions can easily be made in binations, by the financial assistance they can the annual expenditures of the government with- give, now control the policy of the Republican out impairing the efficiency of any branch of the party. We denounce protection as a robbery of public service, and we shall insist upon the strict- the many to enrich the few, and we favor a tariff est economy and frugality compatible with vigor-limited to the needs of the government economous and efficient civil, military and naval ad- ically administered, and so levied as not to disministration, as a right of the people, too clear criminate against any industry, class or section, to be denied or withheld. We favor honesty in to the end that the burden of taxation shall be the public service and to that end a thorough leg- distributed as equally as possible. We favor a islative investigation of those executive depart-revision and a gradual reduction of the tariff by ments of the government already known to teem the friends of the masses and for the common with corruption, as well as other departments weal and not by the friends of its abuses, its exsuspected of harboring corruption, and the pun- tortions and its discriminations, keeping in view ishment of ascertained corruptionists without the ultimate ends of "equality of burdens and fear or favor or regard to persons. The persistent equality of opportunities" and the constitutional and deliberate refusal of both the Senate and purpose of raising a revenue by taxation, to wit, House of representatives to permit such investiga- the support of the Federal Government in all its tion to be made demonstrates that only by a integrity and virility, but in simplicity. change in the executive and in the legislative departments can complete exposure, punishment and correction be obtained. We recognize that the gigantic trusts and combinations designed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint products of capital We condemn the action of the Republican party and labor, and which has been fostered and proin Congress in refusing to prohibit an executive moted under Republican rule, are a menace to department from entering into contracts with beneficial competition and are obstacles to perconvicted trusts or unlawful combinations in re- manent business prosperity. A private monopoly straint of interstate trade. We believe that one of is indefensible and intolerable. Individual equality the best methods of procuring economy and hon- of opportunity and free competition are essential esty in the public service is to have public offi- to a healthy and permanent commercial proscials, from the occupant of the White House down perity, and any trust, combination or monopoly to the lowest of them, return as nearly as may be tending to destroy these by controlling production, to Jeffersonian simplicity of living. We favor the restricting competition or fixing prices should be nomination and election of a President imbued prohibited and punished by law. We especially with the principles of the Constitution, who will denounce rebates and discrimination by transset his face sternly against executive usurpation portation comparies as the most potent agency of legislative and judicial functions, whether that in promoting and strengthening these unlawful usurpation be veiled under the guise of executive conspiracies against trade. We demand an construction of existing laws, or whether it take largement of the powers of the Interstate Comrefuge in the tyrant's pleas of necessity or su- merce Commission, to the end that the traveling perior wisdom. We favor the preservation, so far public and shippers of this country may have as we can. of an open door for the world's com- prompt and adequate relief from the abuses to merce in the Orient, without an unnecessary en- which they are subjected in the matter of transtanglement in Oriental and European affairs, and portation. We demand a strict enforcement of without arbitrary, unlimited, irresponsible and ab- existing civil and criminal statutes against all solute government anywhere within our jurisdic-such trusts, combinations and monopolies, and we en POLITICAL PLATFORMS-DEMOCRATIC-Continued. laws, have a sacred interest in their just administration. They must therefore share with us the humiliation with which we have witnessed the exaltation of court favorites, without distinguished service, over the scarred heroes of many battles, or their aggrandizing by executive appropriations out of the treasuries of a prostrate people, in violation of the act of Congress which fixed the compensation and allowances of the military officers. The Democratic party stands committed to the principles of civil service reform, and we demand their honest, just and impartial enforcement. denounce the Republican party for its continuous and sinister encroachments upon the spirit and operation of civil service rules, whereby it has arbitrarily dispensed with examinations for office in the interest of favorites and employed all manner of devices to overreach and set aside the principles upon which the civil service was estab lished. We demand the enactment of such further legislation fend with their lives the Constitution and the as may be necessary to effectually suppress them. Any trust or unlawful combination engaged in interstate commerce which is monopolizing any branch of business or production should not be permitted to transact business outside of the state of its origin. Whenever it shall be established in any court of competent jurisdiction that such monopolization exists, such prohibition should be enforced through comprehensive laws to be enacted on the subject. We congratulate our Western citizens upon the passing of the law known as the Newlands irrigation act for the irrigation and reclamation of the arid lands of the West, a measure framed by a Democrat, passed in the Senate by a non-partisan vote and passed in the House against the opposition of almost all the Republican leaders by a vote the majority of which was Democratic. We call attention to this great Democratic measure, broad and comprehensive as it is, working automatically throughout all time without further action of Congress, until the reclamation is accomplished, reserving the lands reclaimed for homeseekers in small tracts, and rigidly guarding against land monopoly, as an evidence of the policy of domestic development contemplated by the Democratic party, should it be placed in power. The Democracy when intrusted with power will construct the Panama Canal speedily, honestly and economically, thereby giving to our people what Democrats have always contended for-a great interoceanic canal, furnishing shorter and cheaper lines of transportation and broader and less trammeled trade relations with the other peoples of the world. We pledge ourselves to insist upon the just and lawful protection of our citizens at home and abroad and to use all proper measures to secure for them, whether native born or naturalized, and without distinction of race or creed, the equal protection of laws and the enjoyment of all rights and privileges open to them under the covenants of our treaties of friendship and commerce; and, if under existing treaties the right of travel and sojourn is denied to American citizens or recognition is withheld from American passports by any countries on the ground of race or creed, we favor the beginning of negotiations with the governments of such countries to secure by treaties the removal of these unjust discriminations. We demand that all over the world a duly authenticated passport issued by the Government of the United States to an American citizen shall be proof of the fact that he is an American citizen, and shall entitle him to the treatment due him as such. We favor the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people. We favor the admission of the Territories of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. We also favor the immediate admission of Arizona and New Mexico as separate states and a territorial government for Alaska and Porto Rico. We hold that the officials appointed to administer the government of any territory, as well as with the district of Alaska, should be bona fide residents, at the time of their appointment, of the territory or district in which their duties are to be performed. We demand the extermination of polygamy within the jurisdiction of the United States and the complete separa. ation of church and state in political affairs. We denounce the ship subsidy bill recently passed by the United States Senate as an iniquitous appropriation of public funds for private purposes and a wasteful, illogical and useless attempt to overcome by subsidy the obstructions raised by Republican legislation to the growth and development of American commerce on the sea. We favor the upbuilding of a merchant marine without new or additional burdens upon the people and without bounties from the public treasury. We favor trade arrangements with Canada and with other peoples of other countries where they can be entered into with benefit to American agriculture, manufactures, mining or commerce. We favor the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine in its full integrity. We favor the reduction of the army and of army expenditures to the point historically demonstrated to be safe and sufficient, The Democracy would secure to the surviving soldiers and sailors and their dependents, generous pensions, not by an arbitrary executive order. but by legislation, which a grateful people stand ready to enact. Our soldiers and sailors who de It The race question has brought countless woes to this country. The calm wisdom of the AmeriTo revive the dead and hateful race and sectional can people should see to it that it brings no more. animosities in any part of our common country means confusion, distraction of business and the reopening of wounds now happily healed. North. South, East and West have but recently stood together in line of battle from the walls of Peking to the hills of Santiago, and as sharers of a common glory and a common destiny we should share fraternally the common burdens. We therefore deprecate and condemn the Bourbon-like, selfish and narrow spirit of the recent Republican convention at Chicago, which sought to kindle anew the embers of racial and sectional strife, and we appeal from it to the sober common sense and patriotic spirit of the American people. The existing Republican administration has been spasmodic, erratic, sensational, spectacular and arbitrary. It has made itself a satire upon the Congress, the courts and upon the settled practices and usages of national and international law. summoned the Congress into hasty and futile extra session and virtually adjourned it, leaving behind in its flight from Washington uncalled calendars and unaccomplished tasks. It made war, which is the sole power of Congress, without its authority, thereby usurping one of its fundamental prerogatives. It violated a plain statute of the United States as well as plain treaty obligations, international usages and constitutional law; and has done So under pretense of executing a great public policy which could have been more easily effected lawfully, constitutionally and with honor. It forced strained and unnatural constructions upon statutes, usurping judicial interpretation and substituting for congressional enactment a decree. It withdrew from Congress their customary duties of investigation which have heretofore made the representatives of the people and the states the terror of evildoers. It conducted a secretive investigation of its own and boasted of a few sample convicts, while it threw a broad coverlet over the bureaus which had been their chosen field of operative abuses, and kept in power the superior officers under whose administration the crimes had been committed. It ordered assault upon some monopolies, but paralyzed by its first victory, it flung out the flag of truce and cried out that it would not "run amuck," leaving its future purposes beclouded by its vacillations. Conducting the campaign upon this declaration of our principles and purposes we invoke for our candidates the support not only of our great and time honored organization. but also the active assistance of all of our fellow citizens, who, disregarding past differences upon questions no longer in issue, desire the perpetuation of our constitutional Government as framed and established by the Fathers of the Republic. Synopsis of New York State Platforms, Campaign of 1904. REPUBLICAN. The Republican State Convention met in Saratoga, and adopted its platform on Sept. 15. This platform endorsed the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, reaffirmed the gold standard and the policy of protection and instanced the notable achievements of his administration, including the Panama Canal, the extension of rural free de POLITICAL PLATFORMS-SYNOPSIS-Continued. DEMOCRATIC. livery, and the passage of laws seeking to regulate the trusts. Governor Odell was commended The Democratic State Convention at Saratoga for his resolution, common sense and integrity. Sept. 21, in its state convention attacked GovThe policy of raising revenues for state main- ernor Odell by name and declared that his pertenance by indirect taxation was commended, and sonal integrity rested upon suspicion. It dethe measures the Republican party has taken in clared that prodigal and corrupt expenditures has this direction were commended as being the reached such a pass that the party in power greatest in the history of the commonwealth for dared not levy a direct tax, but felt compelled to the relief of the taxpayer. Declarations were resort to indirect taxation to meet the bills. The made in favor of the canal improvement, in favor course of the administration with regard to the of increasing the effectiveness of the school state charities was condemned, excise reform system, for laws for the safeguarding of the was promised, the savings bank tax was attacked, interests of labor as well as of capital, and for the educational "unification" bill was denounced as the preservation of the forest lands of the Adiron-unfair and partisan. A declaration was also made in dack region. favor of local self-government for municipalities. STATE POLITICAL COMMITTEES. Democratic N. Y. State Committee. Headquarters, Hoffman House, Mhtn. Cord Meyer, New York Co., Chn.; John N. Carlisle, Jefferson Co., Sec.; W. F. Balkam, Monroe Co., Treas.; John Mason, Oneida Co., Clerk. Dist. 1. Perry Belmont, Babylon. 2. Jos. Cassidy, L. I. City. 3. Michael J. Cummings, Brooklyn. 4. John W. Webber, 31 Belvidere St., Bkln. 5. Wm. A. Doyle, 261 58th St., Bkln. 6. Jas. Shevlin, 69 8th Av., Bkln. 7. P. H. McCarren, 169 Wythe Av., Bkln. 8. John L. Shea, 278 Jefferson Av., Bkln. 9. Conrad Hasenflug, 965 Bushwick Av., Bkln. 10. Daniel E. Finn, 569 Broome St., Mhtn. 11. Timothy D. Sullivan, 211 Bowery, Mhtn. 12. John T. Oakley, 422 E. 14th St., Mhtn. 13. Patrick H. Keahon, 335 W. 15th St., Mhtn. 14. Chas. F. Murphy, 305 E. 17th St., Mtn. 15. F. Burton Harrison, 876 5th Av., Mhtn. 16. Wm. Dalton, 421 W. 34th St., Mhtn. 17. Daniel F. McMahon, 356 W. 55th St., Mhtn. 18. Thos. J. Dunn, 321 E. 68th St., Mhtn. 19. Harry C. Hart, 437 E. 84th St., Mhtn. 20. Thos. F. McAvoy, 456 W. 153d St., Mhtn. 21. Louis F. Haffen, 647 Courtlandt Av., Mhtn. 22. Michael J. Walsh, Yonkers. 23. Arthur A. McLean, Newburgh. 24. Jas. Purcell, Valatie. 25. Ira M. Black, Kingston. 26. Elliot Danforth, Bainbridge. 27. Jas. H. Brown, Summit. 28. Jas. H. Glavin, Waterford. 35. John N. Carlisle, Watertown. 38. Henry G. Jackson, Binghamton. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. P. H. McCarren, Chn.; Hugh J. Grant, Fred'k Cook, Wm. S. Rodie, Geo. Hall, John J. Kennedy, Wm. F. Sheehan, Victor J. Dowling, Cord Meyer, John N. Carlisle, John A. Mason, Sec Jr., Republican N. Y. State Committee. Headquarters, Fifth Av. Hotel, Mhtn. Benj. B. Odell, Jr., Orange Co., Ch.; Wm. Barnes, Albany Co., Ch. Ex. Com.; Reuben L. Fox, Otsego Co., Sec.; Louis Stern, Mhtn., Treas. Dist. 9 Chas. H. Murray, 115 B'way, Mhtn. 10 James F. Pegnam, 325 E. 13th st., Mhtn. 11 Wm. Halpin, 1 Madison av., Mhtn. 12 Smith Pine, 1164 3d av., Mhtn. Mhtn. 13 Edward Lauterbach, 22 William st., Mhtn. 20 Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., Newburgh. 21 Louis F. Payn, Chatham. 22 Cornelius V. Collins, Troy. 23 Wm. Barnes, Jr., Albany. 26 John F. O'Brien, West Chazy. 36 Wm. C. Warren, Buffalo. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Wm. Barnes, Jr., Ch.; Reuben L. Fox, Sec.: Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.; Geo. W. Dunn, Louis Stern, Geo. W. Aldridge, Wm. C. Warren, Francis Hendricks, Michael J. Dady, John T. Mott, Louis F. Payn, Thos. Wheeler, John F. O'Brien, Wm. L. Ward, Chas. H. Murray, Edward Lauterbach. For other Political Committees, see pages 326-330 This increase of nearly 27% in real estate was made chiefly in Greater New York and Erie County, and the equalization will add to the assessed valuation of many counties heretofore reduced. The State tax, having diminished to the constitutional requirement covered by the Legislature in a rate of 13-100 mills, is so small that if the entire amount were levied alone upon New York or the counties outside of New York, it would be infinitesimal to the individual taxpayer. Visitations were made during 1904 to these countieg: Albany, Allegany. Broome, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Columbia, Cortland, Erie, Genesee. Herkimer, Jefferson, Madison, Montgomery, Niagara, Onondaga, Ontario. Orange, Orleans. Oswego, Putnam, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Seneca, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne, Westchester, Wyoming, Yates. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. President of the EXECUTIVE. States-Theodore Salary. In order of succession to the Presidency: Department of State. The Secretary of State is charged, under the direction of the President, with the duties appertaining to correspondence with the public ministers and consuls of the United States, and with the representatives of foreign powers accredited to the United States; and to negotiations of whatever character relating to foreign affairs of the United States. He is also the medium of correspondence between the President and the chief executives of the several states of the United States; he has the custody of the great seal of the United States, and countersigns and affixes such seal to all executive proclamations, to various commissions, and to warrants for the extradition of fugitives from justice. He is custodian of the treaties made with foreign He states, and of the laws of the United States. grants and issues passports. Exequaturs to foreign consuls in the United States are issued through his office. He publishes the laws and resolutions of Congress, amendments to the Constitution and of new proclamations declaring the admission He is also charged with States into the Union. certain annual reports to Congress relating to commercial information received from diplomatic and consular officers of the United States. Salary. ..$8,000 4,500 Secretary of State-John Hay, D. C....... 2.500 4,500 Solicitor-Wm. L. Penfield, Ind.. Translators-John S. Martin, jr., Pa.; Wil- 2,250 2,100 coinage and printing of public buildings; the the administration of the life-saving, money; revenue cutter, and the public health and marine hospital branches of the public service, and furnishes generally such information as may be required by either branch of Congress on all matters pertaining to the foregoing. The routine work of the Secretary's office is transacted in the offices of the supervising architect, director of the mint, director of engraving and printing, surgeon-general of the public health and marine hospital service, general superintendent of the life-saving service, and in the following divisions: Bookkeeping and warrants, appoint ments, customs, public moneys, loans and currency, revenue cutter, stationery, printing, and blanks, mails and files, special agents and miscellaneous. Secretary-Leslie M. Shaw, Ia... Salary. $8,000 Ia.; 4,500 3.000 Horace A. Taylor, Wis.; Charles Hallam Chief Clerk-Wallace H. Hills, N. Y. 4,500 3,500 4.500 Chief App't Division-Chas. Lyman, Conn.. 2,750 Chief Pub. Moneys-E. B. Daskam, Conn... 2.500 Chief Stationery and Printing-Geo. Sim- 2,500 Chief Mails and Files-S. M. Gaines, Ky... 2.500 2.500 1,806 4,000 2.250 3.000 Deputy Register-Cyrus F. Adams, Ill... 4,500 Treasurer U. S.-Ellis H. Roberts, N. Y.... 6,000 iams, Jr., O., $4,000; J. C. Wheeler, Mich. 3,600 4,000 4.000 3,500 4.000 Supervising Surg.-Gen. Public Health and Marine Hospital-Walter Wyman, Mo..... 4,000 GENERAL APPRAISERS OF MERCHANDISE. Salary $7.000 each. Byron S. Waite, Mich.; W. B. Howell, N. J.; Marion DeVries, Cal.; T. S. Sharretts, Md.; H. M. Somerville, Ala.; Israel F. Fischer, N. Y.; W. F. Lunt Me.; Eugene G. Hay, Minn.; Chas. P. McClelland, N. Y. Department of War. Department of the Treasury. The Secretary of War is at the head of the War as the The Secretary of the Treasury is charged by law with the management of the national finances. He Department and performs such duties He has supervision of all the prepares plans for the improvement of the revenue President may enjoin upon him concerning the and for the support of the public credit; super-military service. intends the collection of the revenue, and directs estimates of appropriation for the expenses of the Department, all purchases of army supplies and the forms of keeping and rendering public accounts and of making returns; grants warrants all expenditures for the support and transportafor all moneys drawn from the Treasury in pur- tion of the army and such expenditures of a civil suance of appropriations made by law, and for nature as are by law placed under his direction; the payment of moneys into the Treasury; and also has supervision of the construction of the annually submits to Congress estimates of the Panama Canal; of the U. S. Military Academy at probable revenues and disbursements of the Gov-West Point; of national cemeteries; of the publicaHe also controls the construction of tion of Official Records of the War of the Rebel*After March 4, 1905. †Not included in Presidential succession. ernment. lion; of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification and of all matters relating to river and harbor improvements; the prevention of obstruction to UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT-EXECUTIVE-Continued. navigation; establishment of harbor lines, and Salary. 4,500 Secretary of War, Wm. H. Taft, Ohio......$8,000 3,000 Chief Clerk-John C. Scofield, Ga........ Ainsworth 7,500 Inspector-General-Brig.-Gen. Geo. H. Bur ton Davis Quartermaster-General-Brig.-Gen. Chas. F. Humphrey 5,500 Commissary-Gen.-Brig.-Gen. J. F. Weston, 5,500 French E. Chadwick, Commanding South At- Bowman H. McCalla, Commandant Navy Yard. Wm. H. Whiting, Commanding Training Station, ron. Caspar F. Goodrich, Commanding Pacific Squad- William M. Folger, Commanding Cruiser Squad- Francis W. Dickins, Commandant Navy Yard, George F. F. Wilde, Commandant Navy Yard. Chas. H. Davis, Commanding Division Battle- George W. Pigman, waiting orders. George A. Converse, Chief of Bureau of Navigation. Francis S. Dodge 5,500 Chief of Engineers-Brig.-Gen, Alexander Chief of Ordnance-Brig.-Gen. zier Сто- Chief Signal Officer-Brig.-Gen. Adolphus W Greely 5,500 5,500 5,500 Supt. Naval Obs., Rear Admiral Colby .84,675 Bureau of Insular Affairs-Col, C. R. Edwards Director Nautical Almanac-Prof. of Math- 3,500 H Harry 3,577 .... 3,500 Department of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy performs such duties as the President, who is Commander-in-Chief, may assign him, and has the general superintendence of construction, manning, armament, equipment and employment of vessels of war. Secretary-Paul Morton, Ill.... Salary. Asst. Sec.-Chas. H. Darling, Vt... Asst. to Bureau-Captain John E. Pillsbury 4,500 5,500 Chief of Steam Engineering-Engineer-in- 5,500 5.500 Chief of Supplies and Accounts-Paymaster- 5,500 5,500 Judge-Advocate-General-Capt. Samuel W. 4,500 Brigadier-General, Commandant of Marine 5,500 .13.500 sea duty, $6,375 on (Pay, first nine, $7,500 on shore; second nine, $5,500 sea duty, $4,675 on shore.) Francis J. Higginson, Commandant Navy Yard, Albert S. Barker, Commanding North Atlantic Washington. Fleet. Robley D. Evans, Chairman Light House Board. Chief Intelligence Officer, Office of Naval Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.-Captain Willard H. Brownson, Supt. League Island-Rear Ad. Francis W. Dickins. San Francisco-Rear Ad. Wm. H. Whiting, Commanding Training Station. Puget Sound (Bremerton), Wash.-Rear Admiral Charles J. Barclay. San Juan, P. R.-Captain Andrew Dunlap. Honolulu, H. I.-Rear Admiral S. W. Terry. Cavite, P. I.-Capt. Seth M. Ackley. Guam-Comdr. George L. Dyer, Governor. Tutuila, Samoa-Comdr. Edmund B. Underwood. Post Office Department. The Postmaster-General has the direction and management of the Post Office Department. He appoints all officers and employes of the Department, except the four Assistant Postmaster-Generals, who are appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; appoints all postmasters whose compensation does not exceed one thousand dollars; makes postal treaties with foreign governments, by and with the advice and consent of the President; awards and executes contracts, and directs the management of the domestic and foreign mail service. Postmaster-General-Robt. J. Wynne, Pa.....$8,000 First Asst. P. M. G.-Vacant.. Second Asst.-W. S. Shallenberger, Pa... Third Asst.-E. C. Madden, Mich. Fourth Asst.-Jos. L. Bristow, Kan... Purchasing Agt.-W. E Cochran, Col..... Chief Clerk-Merritt O. Chance, Ill... 2,000 App't Clerk-Wm. S. Nicholson, Pa.... Chief P. O. Insp'r-Wm. J. Vickery, Ind.... 3,000 Supt. Free Delivery Service-Wm. R. Skillman, Kan. Commandant Navy Yard, Supt. Foreign Mails-N. M. Brooks, Va... Supt. Money Order System-Edw. F. Kimball, Mass. Supt. Railway Mail Service-James E. 4,000 4,000 3,000 3,500 Supt. Dead Letter Office-Jas. R. Young, Pa. 2,500 Benjamin P. Lamberton, Naval War College. With rank of Rear Admiral. |