The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1869-12-03
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9 black silk sashes for committee q u.
ssegemeues af@r -r ~ % %
sok dozen Kid gloves s@'.o. % %
dozen KID gloves - %
dozen kid giovss % o.
dozen kid gloves s. %
10 back crape scarfs 800 %
Ttavel os Of messenger to New FORK and N
return q 90
Hacks to carry escorts and friends to the
cepot .. .'.'' T-. ~ 90
Fare aud expenses Of escort and ienains
from Warrington d. C.. to Easton, p. rs %
Hotel bills aud Hacks Ut Easiop, Pa ~ g
Fare and expenses On return 70 Wash.
Iasson IA, e, .a.s.,iapsoo
Travel Of assistant seYgcant-atarms and
two messengers, from Washington TO
castoa aud return, 900 miIss eaeh y = 10 %
Total '.' tzi~ Is
The fee system, it appears. il still EN-.
ployed ~ compensate some Of the officers
Of Congress. II there 10 = "csll Of the
House." s. g., general bunting up Of ~.
sent members, the Scrgcant.at.Arms IL per.
mittcd 10 charge five dollars and twenty
cents for a,rcsting, bringing before the
House and discharging" each absentee.
If hundred cmbers are absent. which Is
not uufrcqusntly tbe casc, call Of the
House costs the country five hundred amd
swenty dollars. If witnesses arc summon.
Cd 70 testify before \ committee. the fer.
geant.at.Ar,ns charges . fec and mileage
for each. Thus every person summoned
from New Orleans to testify with regard u
the negro massacre, cost three hundred and
seventeen dollars, and the cost OF merely
sumsnoninc the Witnesses In that affair was
>o.aoe Il cost three hundred and ssven.
teen dollars 70 summon ~ General Hamlin"
to testify before committee. The object
Of tho committee could no doubt have bcea
accomplished for three cents and half
half cent for stationery and three cents
for postage
Now, If money 10 to be thrown away in
this reckless manner, If the Capital $50
remain tho scene Of waste and profusion rs
re find It now, then ,ay the people have =
choice with regard to the parsons who shall
be benefited by 1t. They do not see any
Justice or any proprie'y in Henry Wilson's
hcing compelled to pinch on i've thousand
dollars year, while servants Of the body
to which he belongs retire rich after four
years. service. ..... .f.,,.1
1t brings blush TO the check Of every
properly constituted person to think that
Justice Of the Supreme Court, should I've
compelled 70 cxpcnd his whole salary for
two rooms and hoard for his family, while
man who gets stationery contracts sets up
his carriage and buys picturcs., II the gov.
ernment II to lie pldndcrcd' 1t every point
ny every hand, It is time the spoils were
more fairly divided. eth ''"" ,.un.r,
There Is only ono remedy for this profu
sion at the Capital. Congress hsshoncstly
attempted TO cut off the opportunities for
petit larceny. It has attempted it many
times but never with much succesa The
mileage system. the Thanking privilege, the
wild and wondrois waste of stationery. the
pockcting Of French inkstands ard costly
penholdess, the Juggling home of half rcatns
Of paper, and al the small stcalings of
committee rooms, have been by turns, the
theme0f 'ftdicuic and t,,ciobject Of 'legisla.
lation. Some leaks have been stopped;
but Others have been Immediately opened.
and tho same thieves who pilfcred under
the old law have plundered under the new.
We ought u know by this time thst the
privilege Is u thing which Is always and
everywhere abused. We ought TO know
that pevquisite IL always and everywhere
. means Of corruption. We ought to know
shat nearly every one in the world who Is
compensated By iecs sessf much 40 much,
Or much w little, or Tjots IN abundance
now. 70 10 starved 10 morrow. Let Con.
gressmen simply abolish fscs, perquisites
and privcleses and accept in lieu thereof
proper increase to their salerics-- ny doG.
bic what they now receive. let members
pay their own postage. subscribe for their
own newspaper, buy their own writing
psPsr, and eoupsosatc ~ sAeir o19cesS y
salaries.
Notbipg aahort Il this wiz sv9 snsvsr
The purpose. II Congress should permit
only - much - bottle Of Ink 70 bc fur
nished 10 eaeL cagamisaee room aucs Aweek,
and charged TO Contingent Expenses, .
widening crevicS' would 10 established
sbspnsh rwhlcbss tsysat oi. eohlred Asns
would continually pour. Adj pens 70 the
ink, and yos .wsIld 80 e1quiaSe 'peahold.
sss, dt.ed with ne most costly diamond
pointed gold pSo6 md huge cas0 Of the
finest nro6ueas e 0i1jof1, haAnea hleh1u the