Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-07

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in the pay Of its own employees, out Of its
own contingent fund. As to the proPriety
of that resolution I 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 70 en-
ter upon the very Improbable business OF
throwing stones at the House OF Repreaen-
tatives-
The Senate of the United States is, in
all matters of provision for its own con-
venience, pro7erbially the most extrava-
CANT Legislative body n the world. For.
its hfty-two members it spends $1,000 in
stationery. The 1872 members ofthe House
only ask for their whole number $4,000.
The ffty-tWo members Of the Senate msn-
age to consume in session more ice than
ali the ls2 members of the House They
pay their Secretary $3.50 year mora than
the House gives its Clerks; and the CLERKS
Of their Committees S14 more per week
They order just four times as many Of the
expensive Congressional globe as does the
Houae: and, to brief their other e1pendi-
lures are in similar ratio.
That they are unduly extraysgant I do
not ssy; but it is interesting to observe
that they are the parties to charge the
House Of Representatives with e1trAva-
gsnce
Mr.. Senator Sherman has been eonspie-
uous as q leader in this virtuous rigidity Of
the Senate. a prying wretch, for whom
capital punishment would be too mild q
fate, thought he would look into one two
items of the virtuous Senator's little pri,
vste accounts with the Government. His
hrst discovery was the interesting fact that
computing his mileage from Mansfield,
Ohio, by the shortest route, theSenstor has
to spend (snd draw therefor from the
Treasury $530.40 for travelling to Wash
ingtoDI Mr.. William Johnston, member
of the House lives IN tbs same tol0zl, but
manages to get there for $44Ol The Sena-
tor, who is one of the lost honest men in
public life, has been too busy watching the
rascality of the House in its expenditure
of its own contingent fund, to discover this
trihing leak out Of the Treasury into his
own pocket.
But that is a mere bagateIe. Mr.. SEN
stor Sherman may be readily excused for
so trifing an accidental oVercharge; but
what shall we say ef his friend, Mr.. SEN
stor "Jim" Lane, of KanEss. That incor-
ruptible worthy lives (sccording to tha
Official DirectOry,) in the town of Law
rence. He comes from there to Washing
ton by the nearest travelled route, and he
swears that it costs him two thousand one
hundred and sixty dollars. It happens
that the Representative from Kansas lives
in the same town but by soma superior
skill Of his, he manages to get here at cost
TO the Government of only twelve hun
dred and Esventy-three dollars and sixty
cents.
There is another incorruptiblc Senator
from the pleasant State of Kansas, known
unto men as Mr.. Pomeroy. He is accord
ed IS living in Atchison, forty o: fifty miles
nearer Washington than Mr.. HJim" Lane,
but it costs him precisely the same, 81, 100
to get here, while Mr.. Wilder, the Repre-
sentative living back st Lawrence, can
travel the extra fifty miles and get here for
nearly half the money! or, to put it accu-
rately, for 81, ,273 60. l
But from the Kansas Senators nobody
would expect anything else. Iowa ought tc
send men Of different stamp, and it must
be that the curious facts about their mile.
age need only to be called to their atten.
ton to be corrected. Mr.. Senator Grimes
lives at Burlington, on the Mississippi river;
! Mr.. Senator Harlan lives ct Mount Pleasant
Just one county west from Burlington and
Mr.. Representative Wilson, from the
extrsvsgant House, lives at Fairfield
Just one county west from Mt. Pleasant
Now it curiously happened that Mr.. Sena-
tor Grimes charges the Government $1l59.-
40 for travelling here from Burlington
and Mr.. Senator Harlan s., sos 40 from
Mt. Pleasant; while Mr.. Representative
Wilson is able to get here from Fairfield
Just from beyond both the economical Sen.
ators for 1882 40.
It will be seen that Mr.. Representative
Wilder could get toWashington from Kan
sss for 81, 278 so; and that Mr.. Represent.
stiYe Wilson could get here from, lows
for 1882 40; but it costs that para.
son of Senatorial modesty and ylr.
tue, Mr. Doolittle, Of Wisconsin, 81
$50 to get here from Racine, on the lower
coast Of Lake Michigan almost down
to Ohicsgol will undertake to get there
without the use of any of the dead-head
tickets which the Senator has in his pocket,
and stopping every night to sleep st q first
class hotel, for the odd sixty dollars; and
SO leave him the round twsnty.one hun
dred for stealingsl -
These are all the items of the Senatorial
mileage account that have been able to
procure. I called at the proper quarter
for more, but was pleasantly told that they
were constrained to regard the accounts Of
Senators with the Government, left in the
hands of the officers Of the Senate, as pri-
vatel happen, however, TO know q way
in which they can be Ebowl to be not prI.
Vste; and may have occasion yet to re.
turn TO draw from than fresh Illustrations
of Senatorial virtue and economy.
AaATE.