The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-20
/ E1nen.es OF the T,ennsyIvanIa LegIs.

Expenses or the PennsyIVHnIH LeEIs.
= hi IRture.
The accounts of the last session of the
Pennsylvania Legislature have been
audited. A careful examination of the
books in the Auditor Generals office at
Harrisburg, shows the following to
have been the expenses:
Senator'S pay, mileage and station
RepresenlaIives pay, mileage and -
stationery IU1,oUo 10
The legal allowance TO each person
was 81 900 for salary, S25 for stationery,
and l5 cents per mile Notwithstanding.
The thirty-three Senators and one hum
dred members. therefore, received an
average eff 81, O75 each for lOl days from
January TO April 11), or about $40 "a
per diem. 5000
Rev. E. L., Bailey received $500 from
the Senate, and Rev. Jacob Kennedy
$500 from the House for opening the
daily sessions with prayer, being at the
ate of 80 per diem.
The thirty-three Senators had TWEEN
ty-niue regular officers, seven pages,
twenty five women, and four reporters
who drew pay. The officers drew $2S,-
1893 so, or an average of 1896 each; the
pages drew 81 go so, or SlSl each; the
women, 1921, or over $3.50 each; and the
reporters, $500, or $500 each.
The contingent bill of the Clerk of
the Senate was but $633 A, as against
the contingent bill of the Clerk of the
House, which was 1900.
The one hundred members of the
House had sixty-tive regular officers,
thirteen pages, - women and TOUR
reporters who drew pay. The officers
drew $57, $50 70, or an average of $685.
each; the pages 50, $50 90, or $751; each;
the women, 81 ,246; aud four reporters,
5000 each.
The members and officers availed
themselves of the privilege of franking
documents postage paid by the State)
to the extent of S9,256, with other bills
not ascertained. ~
The entirework of the session was the
passage of l $40 private laws, 10 public
laws, and II resolutions.
The House appointed NUMBER OF
investigating committees, the expenses
OF which amounted to a total of Sl5, l67.
A PARSONS Horse DIR. Holmes will
have to look to his laurels. In last
weeks installment of Norwood" we
find bit of humor In a description OF
a clerical variety of horsefesh, worthy
of the "Autocrat" in his best mood:
The horse was Parsons favorite.
He literally had no faults. He was
| never known to kick, or to bite any.
thing but food. Hay constituting his
principal food, larger quantity was
| required than would have been If oats
or corn had furnished more concentra-
| ted nourishment in smaller bulk. Ma
ture, ever kind to her creatures, gradu-
ally enlarged the barrel of the horse un.
til his belly was puffed out far beyond
any requirements of beauty. A large,
mild and sleepy eye revealed but hall
| the QuietnesS of his disposition. His
legs might be handled by boys. You
| might SIT down safely between his hind
legs. There was no liberty which you
could not take, except that of fast
driving. You might pour a busheT OF
potatoes suddenly upon his Launches
| without producing eXcitement-not,
| however, because he was lifeless, but
from mere self-possession; for peck of
oats, "a rarity seldom ventured,) at the
other extremity quickly showed that
there was life in him.
He was safe. "Slow and sure" was
his maxim. When the good parson
was once seated in the chaise, the events
were as follows: When the self-possess-
ed animal, with his head and neck de-
clining little below the line OF his
back, felt the reins in the DOCTORS
hands, lie opened his eyes; and having
been standing on his three legs, the
fourth crooked up and resting on the
edge of the hoof, he brought them all
securely under him, as if saying, II
am all here, sir !" Next the doctor
pulled both reins, and they were pulled.
Then he Tapped them both upon his
back, with gentle slap, and pulled one
of them with some decision. The time
had come. The horse started, walked
into the road, and then, after several
admonitions, fell into an easy jog,
which satisfied the parsons am bition.
But no persuasion could carry that trot
up the slightest rise in the ground. 1t
was this habit of stopping early in as
cending and starting again late in de-
scending hills, that secured to this
matchIess horse, long life and immuni-
ty from strains. DIR. Buell. innocently
told Hiram Beers that he never used a
bottle of liniment in his life