The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-06-07
More Waste Of Your Money.
Continued from Flrss Page. !

Vice President.
On page 1872 Of the repcr
| find that you spent Sl.l5Z
10 for clocks for this Maltb,
House,
Forty clocks fort our Senators q
one clip, And you paid eleven hun
bred and tifty-two dollars for them
| am afraid to guess how much
it will cost you to get thes,
clocks wound up each year, hereaf
ter.
For | actually fluid in this last re
port, which Hon John Davis of Kan
sas was kind enough To send me /,
few days ago, ths t ever since July
1892, Henry Burmeister has beef
getting $40 per month for winding
the two clock. in the Senate cham
Der.
You will remember that up IL
that time he had only been chsrg
Ing SIS per month. So it cccuri
10 me that if they keep on rails
ing the wages of the clock wind
ers, and keep on buying more clocks
1t is nearly question of time
when The government will have Il
bust.
The only way to save the country
80 far as | can see, is to offer Bur
meister half the clocks to wind the
other half.
To keep this Maltby House in run.
ming order you pay to messengers
conpuctor of elevator, fireman, Ell.
glneer, laborers, etc, $7l4 pei
month. But the Maltby House
IS not ready to turn you loose
yet.
On pages = and rs of the report
lind that you pay upwards OF
$4,000 for new furniture for
these Senatorial offices in July
1898.
This furniture embraces couches
at $50 each, mirrors at $25 each, rugs
at 923 each, carpets of fine imported
velvet, etc.
SELECT COMMITTEES.
Except when You have to bury
them, your Senators and Representa-
tlves cost you more when serving on
travelling committees than at any
other line.
As a specimen, | will take
an itemized bill from the las5 re-
port.
On page 1O2 and 1O3 will be found
an expense account Of 81, 75S.04 for
a Senatorial committee which ina
glned it was Investigating" the i'm
migration question but which was, 10
fact, having a ''junket' to Cuba at
your expense.
This committee was made up Of
Senators VOORHEES,, Call Gray,
Proctor, and Dubois. Here are the
items:
Aug. s. Advanced to Sena-
tor Call for expenses $ 1900
Aug. II. Advanced to Sena-
tor Voorhees, for expenses 127 90
Aug. II. Advanced to Sena-
tor Gray for expenses $3.50
Dec. "a. Carriage hire at
Washington $50
Dec ~. Meals, lunches and
buffet car services" to
Port Tampa Florida 1926
Buffet car services, outside Of
meals and lunches, means ''drinks
and smokes.
Tickets to Havana from
Tampa 5000
Supper 1850
Dec. %. Meals, lunches
and ''Services" on steamer
63.75
Dec 81. Landing, hauling
baggage, etc, at Havana 1880
Hotel bill III Havana 39S.O5
Carriage hire and services
interpreter 1913. so
Railroad fares in Cuba 1900
1898.
Jan. l. Meals, lunches and
services back to Tampa 1886
Supper and carriages in
Tampa 1925
Jan. 2. Breakfast and car
riage, jacksonville 5000
Dinners and carriages at
st. Augustine $3.50
Jan. 3. Breakfast and car
riages, Atlanta, Ga. 1900
Jan. 4. Meals, lunches and
services to Washington 1920
kilograms 1895
Expenses Senators Proctor
and Dubois, meals, lun-
ches, etc, 1885
Same for Senator Proctor
and Representative Covert 34.25
Then comes this delicious morsel
to quit on:
Hostage, newspapers, porterage
and other necessary expenses not in
included in the above items, $780,
co."
These Senator'S left Washington
Dec. "a. 1892 and got back on Jan.
4th, 1898. They had pleasant
winter trip, of ten days, to Florida
and Cuba.
They rode on free passes till they
left our shores, and after that we paid
their way.
And you will observe that this ten
day pleasure trips cost you seven
teen hundred and fifty-eight dol
lars.
You will also observe that this
was partly Democratic and
partly Republican. You will also
observe that these Senators did not
arrive at Havana till Dec. 2Syh.
They left Oh Jan. l. Thus they
were at the hotel three days. During
that time they were snent S2QS M Of