Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-21
LOS ANGELES THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER Il. 1878

do not seem to think that Congress-
men who raise commissions to 20
everywhere and find out everything
are devoting their vacations to the
public good. TO be sure, the Depu-
ty Sergeant-at-Arms carries ped.
ometer and keeps a daily record of
the distance travelled by the Com
mittee; and a long bill for mileage
will be included in the expenses
borne by the Government. But, to
Offset this, the visiting statesmen
are dead headedn over the rail-
roads by the corporations. Visiting
statesmen are like the thrifty
brother who said that he had be-
longed TO the church for eleven
years, and 1t hadn't cost him "the
first red cent? Better than this,
while the railroads carry them free,
with extraordinary comforts and
luxurles,
THE GOVERNMENT PAYS THE BILLS.
They save their candle ut both
ends. There must be something
instructive in the atmosphere of
California. The Pacific Coast
scenery is notoriously conducive to
the enlargement of the intellect.
Even the great and good Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., one of the
United States Pacific Railroad Com
missioners, went to Yosemite the
other day in order to get new views
of the advisability of compelling
the railway companies to estab-
lish q sinking fund. He dis
appeared from our gaze, like an
avenging Nemesis on the track of
Gould, Huntington and Stanford.
Then we next heard of him in.
dulging in the gentle dalliance of
Napa Soda Springs, and uttering
icy opinions concerning the beauty
of the Yosemite gorge. When an
Adams is drawn aside by the siren
of the transcontinental excursion,
there Is no hope for con,mon peo.
pie. The noble Senator Patterson.
of South Carolina, Tor rather of
Pennsylvania), has had his trip to
the Pacific in search Of inforina
ton. The Senator, while hiding
from the South Carolina Consta-
bles, took a run across the contl-
nent, accompanied by his family,
friends, ladies' and "suestsrEa
dozen or more, all told--in a spec
ial car, and ''dead headed" all over
the roads. or course, since
THIS INDUSTRIOUS CARPET BAG.
GER
Ia member Of an Indian Commits.
sion of some sort, 1t is quite proper
that he should go travelling about
at the expense of other people. He
needs information and he ought to
have it. Probably his guests needed
Information, and as there WAS no
other members of the Indian Conn
mission lor whatever it may bel
with the Pennsylvania Senator
from South Carolina, the railway
companies were let off very easy.
There used to be prejudice against
junketing Of this kind. People
complained Of the undignitied way
Ia which public men INDUCED
in private pleasuring at public
expense. This feeling of irritation
has died out. A Senator or Repre-
sentative is "dead head - every
where. Railroad and steamship
companies are afraid of him. He
commands their obs equious service
and lives on the fat of the land free
gratis and for nothing. But he is
collecting aud absorbing astound-
ing volumes of information. When
senator McCreery and Representa-
tive Boone come back from Califor-
MIA with their "guesis," theirsten-
ographers, clerks and miscelaneou
information, it will be worth going
across the continent to appreciate
the wisdom they travelled so far to
get.