The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-04-13
THEY MAKE MONEY FLY.
HOW UNITED STATES SENATOR'S
SPEND THE PEOPLES CASH.
N,tbinr l. Bought for the Upper House
That Is Nof Of tie Very Hcst-Some As
ton,sbina Figures Regarding Purchases
and Appointments.

tonishing Figures Regarding f"ro""'eS
and Appointments.
Especial Correspondence
WAsHING7ox. April s.-When we want TO
know something Of the character aud habits
Of n man we are lucky b wecan discover how
he spends bis pocsei money. Incidental ex-
penses are sure index % character and
methods What Is true Of individuals IS true
Of organized bodies Of men. With this In
view have made n study Of the incidental
expenses Of the United States senate It
shows some curious and suggestive results.
There is this difference between tine incidental
expense If the senate and Of a man whom we
are trying by this means 20 size up. The man
presumably spends bis own money-the sell
ate, we know. spends other peoples.
Tho senate, fat, lazy, luxurious. has sur
rounded itself with an army Of nunkies
There are eighty-four senators, and four sal
ariel employees for each senator. Even the
great house Of representative, with four
TIMES o. many members as the senate has
not so many serviior,. Such place for
clerks and assistant clerks and messengers
and pages aud laboror, and other attendants
as the senate is probably exists in no other
place on this continent 10 begin with, the
senate has a secretary tThe secretary has a
chief ciefc. % .-ineipal clerk. principal ex-
ocutive clerk. a financial clerk minute and
journal clerk. an enrolling clerk, AN assist
amt financial clerk. aud n0 end OK ordinary
clerks. mdistinguished by titles. under his
direction.
Fifty senate committee have clerks 70 at
tend o. their routine matters and 10 do The
bidding of the chlirmeu. A number OF these
committees have assistant clerks. and ten oi
them have messengers Messenger the
reader should know, is The terI which in the
senate stands for waiter, servant. attendant
mixer of drinks. yuryeyor oi personal com
fort. etc. The number Of these messengers
RAPIDLY increases from year % year. Some
Of these committees which have clerks and
messengers do not have any business They
do not meet once "a year. no legislation
comes before them demanding attention, yet
they occupy gorgeou. rooms and are served
like prince. Of the blood af The seaside.
There is q sargeant-at-arms vino has depu-
ties and assistants 90 the number of a dozen
arc lIIN Nf|-.N'i 90 GOT" i''t ~ 'A" N'tt't
ians of the dignity. Besides these there are
thirty who appear ON the rolls as simple
messengers" probably the men who watch
like hawks al all the aperiures of the sacred
chamber % see that DO proiane eye gets with
I'm "a measured ten feet of the walls of the
senate during the majestic secret sessions
There is a postmaster. and be has no fewer
than seven assistants Eight men 20 handle
the mail for eighty But this Is not all.
There are "a hall dozen riding pages 90 carry
notes from the senate chamber 90 the resi-
dences of its members and other places. One
of the curiosities OF Washington society is "a
senate riding page. mounted CA senate horse
from the senate stablcs-for the senate has 20
stable an its own-going about the city leav-
ing a hagful of social communications FOX
madam the senator's wife.
A list Of all the senate's employees would
FIN three or four Of these columns. There arf
suporintendents of document rooms and thc.l
numerous assistants, chief folder, and mans
helpers, chief engineers and a staff OF assist
ants. and n0 end of lab0rers and carpenters
and machni,ts Then each senator bias @
clerk all % himsclf-a faithful servant whc
attends to bis affairs, public or private foi
Sl35 OF government money per month. Fer
haps 10 would not Dee fair % go over this li,i
Of employees and pick ont by name the SONS %
senator's. the s0nsin-law, tAe nephcws tHt
cousins aud other relatives WHO are provided
for ON this alperfuou- pay roll, bat ] venture
the assertion that one-th.rI of all tie em
ployes OF the senate are relatives OF the grave
and reverend fathers who sit within The
chamber.