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Pingree Extravagance

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
October
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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    According lo figures collected by the secretary of state in Iowa in 1897, the annual expenses of the office of secretary of state, in the States named was as follows. per year: New York. $36,000; Ohio. $30.000; Wisconsin. $25.000; Illinois. $15,000: Missouri, $15,000; Iowa. $11.000; Indiana, $10.500; Virginia. $10,000: Michigan. $40,000. These figures include all expenses of the office, including salaries of officers and clerks. In Virginia the salary of the secretary of state is $8,000 per year, and all other expenses only $2.000. In New York salaries are high, and State politics notoriously corrupt, yet with several times the population of Michigan the expenses of the office of secretary of state are $4,000 per year less than in Michigan. Illinois, Iowa and Indiana altogether spend but $35,000 per year on this department of their State government, or $3,500 less than Michigan alone.---Albion Mirror