Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-03-09
Mileage.

MhEAbUs
1t unpleasant 10 learn that those in
whom one has placed great confidence
have proven themselves unworthy Of it.
The following development as to how
some Of our grave and reverend United
States Senators . eompate mileage, an,
der oath, are well calculated to shake
the faith Of the psopls in the integrity
OF their law makers. The statements
are made by agate" the Washington
correspondent Of the Cincinnati Ga
Eett<, who generally knows whereof be
afiirms. Mileage is a very mild name
for such drains upon the public treasury
Some tax payers, not much eonysrsant
with polite literature, would use an al
together different word to express the
idea and call Il in round terms. stealage'
In speaking OF the mock anxiety man.
ifested by several senators to stop leaks
in the treasury at the spigot, regardless
Of the waste a. the buug hole, " Agate
proceeds as follows;
Mr.. Senator Sherman has been con-
spiouous as the leader in this virtuous
rigidity Of the Senate & prying wretch,
for whom capital punishment would be
too mild fate, though he would look
into one or two items Of the virtuous
Senators private little account with the
Governmehg His first discovery was
the interesting fact that, computing his
milage from Mansfield, Ohio, by the
shortest route, the Senator has TO spend
(and draw therefor from the Treasury
$500 40 for travelling to Washington !
Mr. William Johnston, member Of the
House, lives IN tie same torn, but man.
ages to get here for S440l The Sena-
tor, who is one of the most honest men
In public life, has been too busy watch
ing the rascality Of the House in its ex-
penditure Of its own contingent fund
to discover this trifling leak out Of the
Treasury into bis own pocket
But thst is mere bagatells. Mr.
/ Senator Sherman may be readily exeus.
/ ed for so triding an accidental over
charge; but what shall we say of his
/ friend, Mr.. Senator Jim Lane, of Kan,
sas. That ineorruptable worthy lives
| (aecosding to the Official Directory IN
/ the town Of Lawrence. He comes from
there to Washington By he nearest travel.
ed route, and he swears that II costs him
two thousand and one hundred aud sixty
dollars 1t happens that the Reprssen
tative from Kansas lives in the same
town; bat By some superior skin of his bS
manages to get here at a cost TO this
Government Of only twelve hundred
aud seventy-thrae dollars aud sixty cents
There is another iucorruptible Senator
from the pleasant State of Kansas, knowE
unto men as Mr. PomeFoy. He is re
corded as living in Atchison, forty ol
fifty miles nearer Washington than Mr.
"Jim" Lane, bul il costs him preeissl,
the same, g., loo, to get here, while Mr.
Wilder. the Representative living bacl
at Lawrence, can travel the extra fiit,
miles and get here for nearly half th
money or, TO put it accurately, for 81
2I3 60l
, But from the Kansas Senators nobod
would,expect anything else. Iowa ough
to send men OF different stamp, and
must be that the curious facts about fhei
mileage need only to be called 70 thei
economical attention to be corrected
: Mr.. Senator Grimes lives at Darlington
on the Mississippi river; Mr. Senate
Harlan lives at Mount Pleasant, Just on
e county west frsm Burlington; aud Nj
Representative Wilson, from the extraV
I agant House, lives at Fairfield, Just on
county west from Mount Pleasant No
it euriously happens that Mr. Senate
r Grimes charges the Government 81 IL
4 ST for travelling here from Burlington
. and hr. Senator Harlan 81 900 40 frol
Mt Pleasant; while Mr. Representativ
Wilson il able to get here from Fai
: Geld, just beyond both the eeonoEioi
S Senators for $3.50 40
e II has been that Mr. Representati'
!, Wilder could get to Washington frol
Kansas for Sl,275, co. and that N
Representative Wilson could get he
of from Iowa for SeS2 10; but It cost th
e paragon Of Senatorial modesty and Vi
h tue, Mr. Doolittle ofWisconsin, s, loo
get here from Racine, on the lower Goa
Of Lake Michigan, almost down to Cl
q agoi / vii undertake 10 get there, wit
le out the use Of any Of the dead-hei
"A tickets which the Senator has in /
:, pocket, aud stopping every night 20 sle'
:" st frst-elass hotel, for she odd six
re dollars; and 50 leave him the roal
er twsnty-ens hundred for stsalingsl
.. These are all the items of the Sen
- torial mileage account | have been 81
to procure, | called 81 the proper qua
DO ter for more, but was pleasantly to
Is that they were constrained to regard t
accounts Of the Senators with the GC
=. srnment, left in the hands Of officers
the Senate, as priudtei | happen ho
Y ever. to know way in which they c
ne be shown to be aot private; and | n
ed have occasion vet to return 70 draw fri
-. them fresh Illustrations Of Senator
xirtua and annn0or