The collector's own compensation was a politician's dream: With salary and additional monies and fees, Arthur's gross income easily matched the president's pay of $50,000.
Revenue collectors, officers of the army and navy, and royal governors were curtly ordered to the front to do their full duty in the matter of law enforcement.
Best of all, with Conkling's support, President Ulysses S. Grant awarded Arthur the richest plum on the patronage tree, the appointment as collector of the New York Customs House.
最棒是,在康克林支持下,尤利西斯·格兰特(Ulysses S. Grant)总统授予亚瑟(Arthur)赞助树上最富有李子,被任命为纽约海关大楼。
I hid beneath her vehicle disguised as a tax collector and grasped the bottom of her fur coat as she approached the door, then hugged and kissed her thinking she would find it humorous.
Grant's first administration was also rocked by a scandal at the New York Customs House, whose collector, Thomas Murphy, had been a personal appointee and intimate racetrack associate of the president.
The collector of taxes, the superintendent of indirect taxes, the officer of gendarmerie, and two or three other public officials arrived with their wives. They were followed by some rich Liberals. Dinner was announced.
He was what we call the " customs collector." A " collector" is a person who takes things – in this case, taxes for the items that were brought into the country, that were imported into the country.