Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-18
EsTHETIC TASTES
Of the Department officials at
Washington
eRATIFIED At THE PUBLIC EXPENSE
The PecuIiarities of Presidential Possibilities
The Purpose of the Morrison
Tariff BiIl-The hartnsburg
Postoffice Squabble.
Special to the Register.


WASHINGTON, February 17.-Some OF the
figures in the last statements OF e1pend-
iture of the Interior Department have
started inquiry, in the House COM
mittee to which they were submitted. Its
contingent fund disbursements last year
amounted to sl37,2 SO. OF this sum the
secretary's office expended $50 81, the
Indian Office 5000, the patent office
s24,9 1896 10, the education Office $3.50 l3,
the pension Office $4,000, the land office
S30,Sl4 60 and the railroad Office 81 ,696 q.
The expenditures for horses and car.
riages and the keeping and care of the
same for the secretary's office alone
amounted to $3,S23 81. The horses, to-
gether with their feed, care, shoelng, ETC.,
cost $2,4 ,425 Of, while the carriages, repairs,
etc., cost 81, ,39S 53. One six.seat panel
rockaway cost 5000. The item Of horse.
shoeing alone ran as high as sl7 80 per
month. The articles purchased appear to
have been of
An Expensive Character.
Two storm coats for drivers cost SAT. One
pair OF horse covers required an outlay of
$24 40. The item of subscription to news
papers and periodicals foots up to consid'
erable sum in all the bureaus. Suoscrip-
lions to papers and periodicals and the pur-
chase OF books mot including blank books
amounted to $2692S for the Secretary's
office. One item is Subscription to per
!odicals, etc, S50.75." IN December two
'ype writers were purchased for the Secre-
tary's office at cost of 500, and IN the
I'll n
writer" called for an outlay OF S35, and in
the following March, the same amount was
expended for the same repairs. One hair
brush, pailbrush, and comb for the Secre'
tary's office cost 1926. For the Secretary's
office $50 worth of street car tickets were
used.
The Indian Office, so far as the contin-
gent fund expense shows, confined itself to
Cne horse, the feed and care OF which cost
S25 per month. II required $40 worth OF
car tickets per month to provide trauspor-
ta'ion for those not having the privilege
of riding behind the horse. The Indian
office eontented itself with subscription to
the New York Times and Tribune ont OF
the contingent fund.- at an expense OF $2.5O
per month. For the Patent office the con-
Iinsent fund also maintained q horse
and carriage and was drawn upon for all
the expenses necessary therefor. For this
office one platform coup rockaway was pur-
chased at a cost of $iCo. The freight was
Sll.i0. and repairs, horse shoeing, livery,
etc, run the total expense in that time
we'll up. Puck figures in the subscriptions
of some OF the bureaus as one of the ar
ticles
indispensable to the Public Service.
The outlay of the Education Office CON-
sisted mainly of subscriptions to newspa.
pers and periodicals, the purchase OF
books, travelling expenses" car tickets
and rent of telephone.
The Pension office seems to have indulged
largely in carpets and mating. Those ar
ticles, together with the cost Of laying,
cl, sning, etc, aggregated for the year a
cost Of s. $50 81. For one circular chair
the sum of $50 was paid. Ths Pension Of
flee main tanned two horses out Of the con-
tingent fund at the expense for feed aud
care Of S4S per month. The expenditures
for carriage repairs, etc, indicate that the
vehicles were Kept in good order.
The Land oEtice had a horse and carriage
also, the expense of which was borne by
the contingent fund. One set Of harness
cost }I5