Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-12-11

wife insists that they live more in keep
ing with their position. In the first no
tel we called at two small but pretty
rooms were shown, with bath. Five
hundred dollars month" said the
clerk. At the second hotel three rooms
and bath were shown at 1900 amonth. "
So it went-some a little cheaper,
others still more costly. My friend
wanted to spend no more than $3.50
month and wanted three rooms, and in
order TO get what he wanted at that
price had to go to hotel which is not
considered first class, though comfort
able.
OF course one may keep house In
Washington about as cheaply as in any
large city. But Congressman who have
their own homes in the States; and wh0
have.to bGhere onlya part of the year.
do not care to fit up another domestic
establishment. Nor is there any econ
omy in so doing. Even If one gives up
the old home aud keeps house in Wash
ington, a Congressman's salary is bare
ly sufficient TO make both ends meet.
From, SIS to 500 month must go for
house, $40 for servants, and II one
wants TO live in anything like comfort
$50 fora carriage. A salary OF S417 a
month disappears like snowdrift in
April.
Every cabinet minister In Washington
spends more money each year than his
salary brings him. Attorney General
Miller will leave Washington S25, 900
poorer than when he came, hear. Sec
rotary Noble told me he has spent two
dollars in Washington for every one the
government has paid him. This thing
will have to come to an end sometime"
he added. II am often surprised that
our government is administered as hon
estly as it is, considering the cost of
living in Washington and the small SAL
aries paid by the government.
1.-THE truth Of it is, official life in this
city is no place for poor man. Tempta-
ton is thrown in his way at every turn,
and the wonder is that so few succumb
to it. Unless we change our ways and
pay decent salaries the day will soon
come when we shall have either a cor
rupt government or a government to
which none but rich men will dare as
pire TO place in. Neither is desira Die. ="
1t is time already that in forming a
new Cabinet President elect be con-
fined to rich or well to do men. Presi-
dent Cleveland, for instance, would like
to have w. L. Wilson, OF West Virginia,
in his Cabinet as Secretary Of the Treas
ury. Mr.. Wilson cannot afford to take
the place. Service as Congressman
keeps him poor enough, and to be Ca6l-
net Minister would mean ruin. Mr..
Cleveland would like to have Don Dick
inson in his Cabinet again, bat Mr..
Dickinson has had one taste Of official
life in this city, and he says be is not
rich enough to afford the luxury again.
There is no man in this country for
whom Mr.. Cleveland has greater ad-
miration than General PatricE Collins.
of Boston. Mr.. Collins is too poor 70 take
a place in the new Presidents ministry.
and some years ago deliberately retired
from public life in order that he might
make money for himself aud family.
After he gets rich. and he Is making
rapid progress In that direction, be
may conclude to re-enter politics. The
same thing is true Of Ex-Governor
Campbell, Of Ohio. hear that Mr..
Cleveland would like to have Mr.. Camp
bell In the new ministry, but the Gov
ernor has been In the Slough Of Despond
! financially, and nor having Achance
to make some mo proposes 70 put
ambition behind hin and make it.
| These men arc not hunRrE rlopey.