The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-03-15
A "LOyaI' Washington Cores
pOndent ON the Mileage swim
dies OF "LOyaI' Senators.


A "LOyaI'' Naxhingt0n Cores
pOndent ON tiie Mileage swim
dies OF "LOyaI' Senators.
Special Correspondence Of The Cincinnati
Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2s.
Certain references made yesterday By Mr..
Thad. Stevens to the odorous mileage ques-
ton may require explanation. -
Sundry gentlemen in the Senate whose
notion Of economy seems to be TO keep up
a vigorous watch upon the droppings at the
spigot, while the great leaks ut the buug-
hold 20 unnOticed, have of late exhibited
unwonted virtue on the subject of resolu-
tion which the House passed at the last
session, making temporary increase in the
Pay Of its own employees, out Of its own
contingent fund. As to the prOpFiety of
that resolution have not one word to say;
but it is worth while to see what manner Of
men these in the Senate are, who think
themselves pure enough to enter upon the
very Improbable business of throwing
stones at the House of Representatives.
The Senate of the United States is in all
matters OF provision for its own comfort
and convenience, proyerbially the most ex-
travagant Legislative body in the world -
For its fifty-twO members it spends $1,000
stationery. The lg2 members OF the House
only ask for their whole number Sl2 COO.-
The fiity-two members OF the Senate man
age to consumer session more ice than
all the 1872 members of the House! They
pay their Secretary $4S0a year more than
the House gives its Clerks; and the Clerks
of their committees $l4 more per week.
They order just four times as many of the
expensive Congressional Globes as does the
House; and to be brief, their other expen-
ditures are in similar ratio.
That they are unduly extravagant | do
not say; but it is interesting to observe that
they are the parties to charge the House Of
Representatives. with extravaganza!
Mr.. Senator Sherman has besn conspieu-
GUS as the leader in this yirtuous rigidity of
the Senate. A prying wretch, for whom
capital punishment would be too mild fate,
thought he would look into one or two items
of the virtuous Senator's little private ac-
count with the Government. His first dis
covery was the interesting fact that, COM
putting his mileage from Mansfield, Ohio,
by the shortest route, .thG Senator has to
spend land draw therefore from the Treas
ury) $3.50 80 for travelling to Washington
Mr. William Johnston, member Of the
House, lives IN the same t0tpn, out manages
to get here for $44O The Senator, who is
one Of the most honest men in public life,
has been too busy watching the rascaliry of
the House in its expenditure of its own con
tingent fund, to discover this trihing leak
out of the Treasury into his own pocket.
But this is mere bagatelle. Mr. Senator
Sherman may be readily excused for SO
trifling an accidental overcharge; but what
shall we say OF his friend, Mr. Senator
Jim" Lane, of Kansas? That incorrupt-
iblc worthy lives according TO the official
Directory in the town of Lawrence. He
comes from there to Washington by the
nearest travelled route, and he sWuars that
it costs him two thousand one hundred an
sixty dollars 1t happens that the Repre-
| sentative from Kansas Ewes in the same
t twn; but by some superior skill of his, lie
manages to get here at cost to the Gov
ernment of only twelve hundred and seventy
three dollars and sixty cents.
There is another incorruptible Senator
| from the pleasant State of Kansas, known,
! unto men as MIR. Pomcroy: lie is recorded
AS living III Atchison, forty or fifty miles
nearer Washington than Mr.. Jim" Lane
but it costs him precisely the same, s., lG0,
to get here, while Mr.. Wilder, the Repre-
sentatiSe living back at Lawrence, can tray
el tfSsextra fifty miles and get here for
nearly half the money; or, to put it accu-
rate)y for 1928 CO.!
But from the Kansas Senator'S nobody
would expect anything else. Iowa ought
to sepd men of different stamp and it
must b. that the curious facts about Their
mileage need only to be called to their eco.
nolnical attention to be corrected Mr.. Sen
ator Grimes lives at Burlington, on the
Mississippi river; Mr.. Senator Harlan lives
at Mount Pleasant, Just one county west
from Burlington; and Mr. Represcntativ,
| Wilson, from the extravagant House, lives
At Fairfield, just one county west from Mt.
| Pleasant. Now it cuIiously happens thai
Mr. Senator Grimes charges the Govern
ment &l.5l5 81 for travelling here from Bur
lington; and Mr. Senator Harlan 81, COG II
from NJ. Pleasant; while Mr. Representa-
tive Wilson is able to get here from Fair
field, just beyond both the economical Sen
ators for $9S2 20.
1t has been seen that Mr. Representative
Wilder could get to Washington from Kan.
sas for 81 ,273 co. and that Nh Representa-.
tive Wilson could get here from Iowa fiji
$9S2 10; but it costs that paragon Of. Sen
atorial modesty and virtue, SIR; Duoittlc
Of Wisconsin, 81, 100 to get here from Ri;
cine, on the lower coast of Lake Michigan
almost down to Chicago. / win uudertak,
to get there, without the use of any OF tn,
dead-head tickets which the Senator has il
his pocket, and stopping every night t,
sleep at first class hotel, for the odd sixt,
dollars; and so leave him the round twenty
one hundred for stealingS, rr
These are all the items Of the Sonatoria
mileage account have been able to procure
| called at the proper quarter for moro, bu
was pleasantly told that they were constran
ed to regard the accounts Of the Senator
with the Government, lett in the hands o
officers of the Senate, as prirate' / hap.
pen, however, to know way in which the,
can be shown to bcnot private; and I ma,
have occasion yet to return to draw from
fresh Illustrations Of Senatorial virtue an,
economy. AGATE.
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