New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-22

SURPRISED AT THE DIS
CLOSURES OF EXTRAVAGANCE
L.IvETlED FCOTMAN WITH \ GOVERNMENT
sAIAI:Y-LOGAN CARLIsITs METHOD or
,,-orpr>.c co,SGRESSMEN

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ny TELEGRAPH 10 III: 1rlnrygJ
Washington. Feb 2l.-The publication in The
Tribune OF the facts in regard to the costly SEMI
official livery establishment maintained at the
public expense in the Treasury Department for
the use of the Secretary. the Assistant SecIc-
tarles and the Chief Clerk and the members or
their respective families well as the facts in
regard ID the exceedingly generous allowance OF
assistant private secretaries to Assistant Secre-
taYios has excited considerable comment, not
to say a good deal Of establishment among Con-
gressmen and others. The truth OF the state
ment made in the dispatch in relation TO these
matters has not been denied. either officially or
otherwise and the absence of such denial Is also
a matter Of comment. The statement VIII he
more complete however, when supplemented with
the fact that the liveried fooinan, who IS SO I'M
portant and useful feature of Secretary Car
isles elegant equipage. is also borne on the pay
rolls of the Treasury Department as laborer at
5000 year.
\ Congressman whose necessary expenses for
cab hire and street car tickets amount to SD ana
upward each month-eXpenses incurred because
he is obliged TO make daily journeys on pubnc
business to one or more executive departments
or public oflices-whch he must pay out oil ms
own pocket naturally feels the least BIT IN
dignant and enViouS when he discovers That an
Assistant Secretary q chief clerk, whose lcSlt!-
mate official duties do not require him to traNel
outside the building in which those duties are
performed IS furnished with carnage uili
driver maintained at the expense or the NauohaI
Treasury. He IS hardly to be censured II he ieels
more 50 when he trudgeS afOOt or rides IN hired
cab TO a theatre or an evening party ana sees
Mr. Assistant Secretary or Mr.. Chief Clerk and
his family drive to the door in neat carriage
drawn by a sleek, we'll groOmed horse in a natty
gear and driven by man VINO Is techhcally
ana potentially Government laborer. but actu,
ally a private cOachman-when he sees TINS ana
reflects that the neat and not inexpensive equl-
page the like of which he cannot often AFFORD.
is maintained at the public expense Tor the Sole
use and pleasure If Mr.. Assistant Secretary or
Mr.. Chief Clerk and his family and friends
AS before related in these dispatches, me
vehicles and animals authorized by law for the
use Of the Treasury Department are TO be USED
only for official purposes. 1t Is perfectly stle 10
say that there is scarcely Senator or Repre-
sentative in Congress who does not require When
in Washington the use Of a carriage or other
conveyance in the discharge OF his pubic duties
fifty times where Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury requires the same once IN the perform
ance Of his official duty. 1t IS understood that
the attention Of several members or the House
Committee on Appropriations has been arrested
by the publication OF the facts in regard u the
expensive livery establishment and the generous
allowance Of assistant private secretaries 10
Assistant Secretaries in the Treasury Depart
ment and that an effOr. Will he made 10 check
the extravaganza there as well as In any other
department when Il may be discovered
one member Of the House of Representatives
to-day expressed the opinion that with the help
Of horse coupe and driver ne would be able, II
he were. Chief Clerk Of the Treasury Department.
to reach his office before midday as rule An
other member who had visited that Department
several times in order TO the Chief Clerk on
official business and had as often failed 10 ma
him at last inquired at what hour he could
find that eminent public functiCnary at his desk.
This was IN substance the reply he received:
"Oh you'll have to come some afternoon after
3 o'clock. The Chief Clerk has been 50 annoyed
by calls from Congressman that he does not now
ARRIVE until about the time the doors are closed
10 the public at O'clock
So it seems that Chief Clerk Logan Carlisle.
as well as President Cleveland has Congress on
his hands" Representatives will therefore please
take notice and act accordingly.