The Osceola times., 1878-04-13

rooms of legislators. This took place
from 1871 10 1874. On one day in March,
1872, the liquor bill OF single dealer
was 81, ,63l, and three DAYS later he had
a bill Of 81, ,S52 more. As is always the
case in such circumstances, the prices
paid we're enormous, $40 a gallon being
the price charged for brandy, $40 for
sherry, $40 case for champagne, $40 a
dozen bottles for port wine, and 500 a
hundred for cigars.
But refreshments were not the only
requirements OF the statesmen. In four
years the state paid for more than
$4,000 worth of furniture, although
liberal sppraisement makes the
value of the furniture now in the state
House only $l7,7l5. More than one
dealer testified that he furnished at
least forty private bedrooms, and all the
committee rooms we're fitted with costly
furniture, which was stolen rs soon as
the session closed. The reports Gays, in
regard to one large bill: "The evidence
proves most conciusively that majority
of the members OF the house combined
against the persons who furnished these
goods and demanded to be paid for voting
for the claim. The bills were more than
doubled and certificates issued for
them" This is the Ingersell process
over again. Beside furniture the state
paid for clocks costing from $3.50 to
1900 each, and for several mirrors at
$500 each Nearly all these have been
removed by unknown thieves. The
carpet bills equaled the rest, amounting
to thousands OF dollars year. The report
says
By reference to the. account OF
Stewart, Sutphen & Co., by A. o. Jones,
and reported from committee on con-
tingent account, it will be found that
during one session alone they sold to
the state 4,65S yards of carpeting-
more than 1000 yards being finest Brus-
sells. General Dennis and Sergeant-at-
Arms Williams both testify that the
committee rooms were furnished with
new carpets every session, which were
carried away in the spring of the year.
General Dennis says he knows that some
of it WAS shipped to Massachusetts,"
A few other articles which the Legislation;
successfully coveted were stationery, the
bill for which, during one session, was
S6S, 900; dry goods, horses and carriages,
Webster's dictionaries Zone for each
member), inkstands worth twenty-five
dollars apiece, gold pens at ten dollars
each, iewelry, call-bells at twelve dollars
each, stoves, hair. brushes and towels, and
all kinds of commodities, such as the
following:
Best Westpha.ia hams, Bologna sau.
sages. bacon strips, diamond hams, Java
and Rio coffee, pine, Edsm, Schweiser
cheese, English cheese, gilt-edge butter,
sardines, smoked and canned salmon,
smoked beef and buffalo tongues, canned
oysters and Holsters, fresh Norfolk oysters,
deviled ham, black and green tea, French
chocolate, olive oil, cstchups, Worcester
and pepper sauces, imported mush-
rooms, preserved ginger, guava-jelly,
pickles, brandy>cherries, brandy peaches,
lemon-syrup, assorted extracts, sea-
foam, citron, assorted nuts, lemons,
oranges, wax and adamantine candles,
cogste's fancy and toilet soaps, starch,
table and Liverpool salt, kerosene oil,
bacon sides and shoulders, English mus
tard, vinegar, msckerel, concentrated
lye, Orleans and fancy syrup and mOlas-
ses, assorted English crackers and bis
cults, condensed milk, parlor-matches,
Irish potatoes, leaf lard, assorted pepper,
sugar, -four, pearl grits, imported kid
gloves, ladies' sstchels, mems white and
brown hosiery, linen cambric handker-
chiefs, ladies' hoods, cambrics, ribbons of
all qualities, fine plaid goods, extra long
bath towels, pieces of Grape, scissors,
skrt-braids and pins, baize, spool>cotton,
prints, tooth brushes, heavy combs, fax,
buttons, whalebone, gingham, hooks and
eyes, boulevard skirts, " bustles," extra.
long stockings, chignons, palpitators,"
garters, chemises, undervests, parasols
and sun umbrellas, fine overcoats, pants,
vests, coats, shirts, undershirts, drawers,
socks, bOets, suspenders, collars, shoes.
slippers, hats and caps,"- n. Y, Even
ing Times.