The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-05-31

traps, a forty-dollar History o
Greece, shaving soap, yaseline, hand
glass, tlesh-brushes, witch hazel
white cosmetics, magnesia, Pinaud'
tonic, cuticura ointment, bath spon
ges, and puff ball and box; anC
large lots of every known variety OF
soap.
And bless my life, here on page 10;
Is IA jar of snuff
Bought with your money by ouI
dandy Senators.
Then come a great many more sill
yer pitchers, lather brushes, shaving
mugs, backing, blacking brushes
another Webster's Dictionary and 1
fearful lot of towels, ice without Inn
=st, and IA twenty-dollar History ot
American Spiders and their spinning
work" (See page 1879
Among the miscellaneous item;
which make up this waste of youl
hard-earned money you Will find tim,
and again, where you are charged
for the carriages which are sent af
ter absentee Senators. The items is
entered III these polite words:
"For use Of carriage from 2:3O a
m. to $50 a. M, Jan. II, 1891, in re.
questing attendance of absent Sena-
tors, $1,000
On Jan. II, 1891, are four entries
t, that effect. Thus you spent $40
on that one day trying to get your
Senator'S to come to their place of
business.
On Sept. %. 1890, you are charged
with 1924 for meals sent to confer
ence committee.
And each month during all this
time you are paying Henry Burmeis-
ter $50 to wind up the two Senate
clocks.
You pay @42S for the expenses of
d committee which attended General
Sherman's funeral; you pay upwa rds
OF $4,000 for the funeral Of Sena
tor Hearst; you ray $500 for II bust
of Daniel Tompkins and $500 fol
one of Thos. a. Hendricks.
On page 1870 let your start
led eyes rest VI on this entry against
you:
"June 3, 1891. For three impe-
rial bathing tubs, porcelain lined,
nickel plated fittings, for Senate
bathing room, 1850"
Now turn back to page ll9 and
read:
"513 dozen huck towels, made tc
order with L. S. Senate woven in.
$iS1; 9 dozen bath towels, $27; &
dozen bach towels, S36."
Thus you viii! observe that you
h we no only supplied your Senators
with unlimited soap, but also with
bathing tubs and easily bath tow.
els.
Beginning on page ri and ending
on page 134, we have another lot OF
miscellaneous items amounting tc
$4,000. 1t is mostly made up OF
the expenses Of special committees OF
Senators.
Then comes $40 for postage
stamps; $1,000 for compiling the
Congressional Directory: $4,000 fol
the expenses of Senators in contest.
ing for seats.
The grand total of the expenses
of your Senators for those few
months were Que million, one hun.
dred and ffty-six thousand, sever
hundred and sixty-five dollars and
thirty cents-not counting the salary
aud perquisites Of the Nice-Presi
dent.
Your National Senate cost you
more than $4,000 for each of youl
eighty eight Senators.
Do you get no return from the
money invested in those elegant bar
Der shops?
None whatever.
Do you get no return for all those
bar-room supplies: And for those
bathrooms
None whatever.
Do you get no return fol all tha
lavish outlay for furniture:
None worth mentioning. colo
furniture and waste paper" is YOU
only source of income as an offset t
the tremendous outlay for new fur
niture, carpets, mirrors, etc.
Your income from the old furni
ture, ETC., which was sold to max
room for the eight thousand dollar
worth of new furniture was, in 1891
fifty-seven dollars.
In 1892 the Senate spent NOR
than five thousand dollars of you
money for new carpets, rugs, ETC., t
take the place of that which the.
had bought in 1891 and previou
years. If any showing was made fo
the carpets and furniture thus dis
placed, | have been unable to fin,
it.
THE REPORT OF 1892.
Is m0c1 the same.
For the year ending June 80, 1892
the eighty-eight Senators were pai'
Sl6,915.00, balance due them ol
1891; then paid $456,063.0O, du
them down to June 80, 1892.
During same period, you paid t
Senate officers, clerks, messengers
pages, Senators clerks, committe
clerks. etc. S405, ,4S3 o.
You paid to the police 1886 o.
For stationery you paid 4,452.0'
For more stationery 11,2l5.0
For postage 5000,
Horses and wagons 3,557.O
Fuel for heating 9,143.0
New carpets and furniture 5000
Repairing furniture 1880