St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-18
PLAYED A GOOD GAME
The Thrift of Western Congressman
Who Went to Get Offices for
His Constituents.
A Cincinnati German Appointed Ministe
to Italy and Hoosier Hanna
Sent to the South.
Consuls to the Leading Foreign Cities
Named--Cattle Kings See Com
missioner Colman.
Deserved Defeat of a Fresh Office
Seeker--Lamar Sick Aga1n--A
Gift to Cleveland.
A Western Congressman's Trick.

A Western COmgressman's Trick.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Therei is story
going around here rather quietly in small
circle of Western congressman and office
seekers, to the effect that certain con-
gresham from state adjoining Illinois is
manifesting an amount of thrift that is
likely to get him into hot water. 1t is said
by a gentleman who claims to
have seen the affidavits in the case
and to know many of the afiants, that a
number of constituents of this congressman,
who wanted an office, asked him to come to
Washington and press their cases. To this
he replied that he would 60 to school before
he would come to Washington at his own
expense in order to help them get jobs
| under the government, but he would
furnish the time, as the government
gave him a salary of $4,000 year.
provided his Office-seeking constituents
would pay his expenses, and he impressed
| it upon their minds that Washington was a
very expensive city to live in. Of course
this explanation was not made to his con-
stituents in gross, but to each one who
sought his assistance. Each office-seeker
| recognized the
that his expenses should be paid and was
easily persuaded that it cost twenty-five
cents to look down Pennsylvania avenue,
and $3.50 to get into the White house, and
he advanced the congressman money enough
to bring him to Washington even without a
pass and keep him while here at the best
hotel with all the extras thrown in. The
statesman does not live at the best hotels,
but in the modest style befitting a repre-
sentative of the American people. He pays
SO cents day for his room (that is a very
low rental. even for this season of the
year, when rooms are chaep), but he gets
his room at discount because he acts as
runner for the house; that is he gets his
friends to stop at the same place when
they are in the city. He boards at cheap
restaurants and pays about 25 cents a
meal. There is pretty wide margin be-
tween what it really
COSTS HIM TO LIVE
here and what his office-seeking conStitu-
ents suppose that it costs. Fifteen or
twenty men who wanted him to come here
to promote their interests have made affida-
Wits that they had paid him considerable
sums of money ostensibly to cover his nee
essary expenses while attending to their
interests, and these affidavits are
declared to be in the city and it is proposed
to fill them where they will do the congress
man referred to the greatest amount of
harm. The aggregate sum the affidavits
show to have been advanced the congress
man for expenses leaves no room for doubt
that he has made a very handsome thing
out of the office-seekers of the
district Besides it is well known that he
is poker player of considerable reputation
in the West, and friend of his says that
he has rolled up large-sized pile instead of
looking after the interests of his constit-
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