The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-20
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We served up to our readers laS'
week. from official sources, the disgust.
ing details of radical corruption in oul
State legislature. On glancing over
the shameful account of plunder, from
the purloining of sealing-wax to the
peddling Of prayers by pious radicals,
we imagined that it surpassed all eX-
ample of political pilfering in this or
any other land. But we make, this
week, an extract from Senate Docu-
ment No. 53, certified by John w.
Forney, Secretary of the Senate. This
document rarely finds its way among
the people, their representatives kind
ly furnishing them with blatherskite
speeches and garden seeds instead.
The following are some Of the details
given in the document referred to:
For pocket knives, 5O4 in num-
ber, $1,11S 80
For pen-knives, 400 in num-
brr, 1904 60
Making 914 knives for these 81
gentlemen in one year, about
! Is each; average cost $2.53, a
mounting to, 1922 90
| roo ,,oir of oh ah nair
each, cost, 1926 OO
Sponge, 364 7G
7,137 pair of scissors, about y
pair each, at little over 81 a
pair, 1,199 10
2l0 pair of kid gloves, about
pair each, at $3.50 a pair, 525 90
116 diaries, 206 70
294 portfolios, nearly each, at
about 81, 1,1O4 90
446 pocket-books, 8 each, at a.
bout $3.50, 1,O19 80
300 brushes 324 50
SOC pin-cushiOns, GO 90
1,085 boxes Of pens, 1895 81
2.S0S lead pencils 725 80
Newspapers and magazines 1896 60
2,S768 reamS paper, 1902 80
l 1907, 454 envelopes, 10,904 81
Other items, such as paper weights,
cork rk-screws, cords, erasers, leather dus-
ters, chamois skins, folders, pen-Wi-
pers, blank books, ink-stands, eyelet
machines, pamphlet cases, copy books,
paper files, pen racks, gold pens, dies,
key-rings, match cases, fluid, card ca
ses, memorandum books, combs, CO.
lOgne, perfumed soaps, pOmade, toilet
powders, lemons, help to make up a
list of miscellaneous articles sufficient
to set up in the fancy line all the Sena-
tors poor relations. We always knew
that many of the Senators were addict
ed to clipping out editorials to make
up their brilliant speeches, but what
in the name of the knife-grinder, did
they want with upwards of seven hun
dred pairs of shears and seven thousand
pairs of scissors? When Zach Chandler,
the great radical from Michigan, wants
to treat his friends Ramsay and Nye,
the obsequious Secretary Forney is on
hand with a cork screw and the lem
ons, which go among miscellaneous eX-
penditures. There are pomade and
edu de cologne for the ambrosial locks
of the gifted Sumner; French kid
gloves and ivory card case for the
dainty Yates in his evening calls; gold
pens and perIumed note paper for all
our republican Sybarites. Each one
gets eight pocket-boOks worth two dol
lars and half each, to carry off the
five thousand a year which he voted
which is fourteen dollars for
every day in the year, including Sun
days and probably more than thirty
dOtfars Il day for the time actually en-
pl0yed. When our farmers and labor
ing men, who are staggering beneath
an intolerable burthen of debt and tax
alton, scan this list, they will be able
to form some idea of where their mon
ey goes.