Evening journal., 1892-01-13
C0STLYSENATE BURIALS
Big Figures Shown by Secretary
McCooks Report.
HEARsTs FUNERAL COST s2O,sS45a.

It Cost More Sor Food 1T senator Wilson's
Funos~I Tsaaa Ia Dad TO Run the Train
Both Ways Bortlfsoetion Bills Re
ported 10 the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The annual report
Of General A. G. McCook. secretary of the
senate Cor tho year ended June 80, 1891, con
tains the information upon which the usual
argument in favor OF reform in the matter
OF congressional funerals is made Among
the items Is one OF $3.50 paid for meals for
the party accompanying the remains Of
Senator Beck to Lexington, KY, May 8,
1890, before leaving Washington. The train
left at about O'Clock in the afternoon, but
the members Of the eecort could not risk the
danger Of travelling without fortifying
themselves against its exhaustive strain
without good square meal although they
occupied a train carrying a dining car. The
sum Of s3,4s paid for draping the engine
Of the train at Huntington, w. Va, com.
plotes tho account for Senator Becks
funeral
Costly Meals, These.
Senator Wilson's was the funeral of the
year. According to the vouchers returned
il cost 1884 TO run the train, consisting Of
three Pullman cars and baggage car from
Washington 10 Snow Hill, Nd, distance
u 22i miles, the train having to run up to
Wilmington, Del, and thence down the
eastern shore Beside the cost Of the tram
tho two Pullman sloeners cost ninety dollars
each, and the Pullman dining car Sl2O And
then the vouchers soy that en- route and at
Snow Hill, a period of tiine probably not ex-
eeeding two days, tho escorts ate meals on
that dining car Cor which was charged to-
tai Of $S4S.5 more than tho cost Of running
tho entire train both ways.
Instrildng contrast with this is the bill for
meals consumed by the congressional dele-
CATION which attended the funeral of Glen
eral Sherman, at New York, Feb. 10, 1891
going and coming. distance Of go miles
The party comprised eighteen persons, and
their bills for needs was but SS5. As. The
charge for Pullman sleepers was also quite
moderate in comparison, being but seventy
Eve dollars, ard for tho dining car the dele-
cation was charged but pro rata amount.
Lunches and carriages at New York cost
$3.50.
The undertakof's bill Ger Senator Wilson
was S6l5. so, for Senator Hearst S5s2 The
assistant sergeantat-aTms was allowed
sSs25 for carriage hire for himself and
assistant, and transfer Of baggage at the
funeral
Hearst's Tuheral Bin eeo,6se,58.
But the vouchers for the transportation
and entertainment "a the party that &C
companied Senator Hearst's remains 70
San Francisco show an unprecedented ex-
penditure. Service OF Pullman and other
cars amounted to 81, 9O5; meals and lunches,
etc, served e'l route, SO, 49, "a; hauling the
special train 10 San Francisco, &C. 400; on
return trip Sc, 1850. The expenses Of the
sergeant-at-arns in connection with the
funeral, carriage hire, baggage transfer,
etc, amounted to 54F0. As Senator Vance
didn't come hack with the funeral train
returning over the Northern Pacific railroad,
and the cost OF the -Sl54-was reim-
bursed to him and is included in the funeral
expenses. The hotel bin Of the party at
San Francisco for five days was S777. 40
The total cost of the funeral az shown By
the vouchers returned was s2O,63l.59
The report gives some interesting figures
bearing on the expediency Of contesting
seats Of senators. Messrs. Sanders and
Power were allowed s., A53 for expenses ia
defending their seats as senators from Mon
tana Two old claims for senatorial serv-
ices were paid, 81, 554 each to Frederick A.
Sawyer, who served from the state OF South
Carolina from March A, 1867, until June 20,
1868, and George +. Spencer, who served
from the state Of Alabama from March 4.
1867, to June "A, 1868 The total Of expen-
ditures authos lied and paid during the year
was 81, 1876, 765