New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-11

This m0nstruus system is not the result Of acct
dent The Senators meet In caucus determine
who will suit them best as Mileage Committee;
then sppont those they have agreed on by ballot !;
II the President of the Senate dislikes TO couple
his character with payments for mock journeys
pretended o. have been Travelled, he steps out OF
the Chair. and some Senator Of more convenient
principles and who, as In ATCHisONs case, Is to
proht by The jeclson, sanctions the charges If the
Controller is shocked at the inlquty, Mr.. RLvERDr
l0HNsoS and bis opinion are always 10 be hsd To
psalm any CONSCIENTIOUS scruples the Secretary OF
the Treasury may have and HENRY +. FOOTE,
whose expenses home and back are probably 500
b. $780, charges TO- 800 miles travel at 90 cents per
mile and pockets the o. l2s beside bis O. per day
while at w ashington BESTO, got q, 3o2 be bad
no right TO; ATcRIsoS, t2,5l5; DOwSs OF La had
ease for mileage TO and from four months atten-
dance, and SAM HOUsTos charged si.s92 Tor com
ING once from Texas and going bsck-only 1880
miles at 40 cents; his colleague RuSK, for same
service, go, s4.esi. or l.736 miles being s. .57i
/ too much $500 will pay ior RUsK and HoUsTos,
/ going and oomins-they charge nearly $4,000.
Wors, OF all when Legislators come here, they
SIRE good for nothing seemingly. though costly
/ enough Heaven knows
cents where under 60, and where 90 " 20, counted
| them As 81.
The object Of the rulers Of this country is t. get
the people deeper in debt every day. and increase
patronage, and thus to rule the Union. not through
equity and justice bat through a mOned olig archy
( OF gamblers and iobbers. through patronage and
corruption and the Concentration OF every interest
| adverse 70 that Of the people, Slavery and the
breeding OF slaves Cor sale being the chief corner
stone.
/ New States with few people in them, and tn ey
| few and scattered wonderfully increases Execu-
! tive patronage and influences the Senate in It's
! seton by means OF Senators the creatures OF the
/ Government Of he hour.
sixty men me. in the Senate Chamber March
! s, ard closed their sitting March 81 seventeen
working days Their charge, over and above ser
wants, officers. attendance. and every possible con
venience supplied By the nation. Is 50, pcs in
~sCes and real and pretended miesse, being
! 1891 each on the average. or csc each. per day
nesr.y Snd al real trav cling charges, except ioE
few new Senstors, were paid for BY the pubic
beside
In 1911. there was an extra session Of three
! DAYS and the members charged s24 each or about
$500 instead ~ CSC s6s pay FIR shan journey
Was no, then inveuted. In ls25 the next extrs
session, none but new Senators. who had actually
cone in Msrrh. and were TO 20 home agsin were
allowed mileage DO sham mileage In ebus ses
SION q ls2S nor in ls31 nor 10 lst. Ia is4S IN
der DAILAss corrupt sway il was pretended Il at
Sci sior might be paid for 5000 miles OF travel.
though he had crossed his threshold. and this
under an old law What "eeeAi expoQnder
struck this gold mine FIRST is Dot known
Last ear the Senate tom&hswked the House
bll 10 cheek this dishonest practice; they waited
no change. Yet to give BoRLASD s5,3is Of per
gulslles. while DArToS gets but $3.50 dulng 4
hur months ATTENDANCE "a rsther unequal.
" William Hsnly now on IiL a. Pow