The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27

Expenses OF Congressional library. u 600
Expenses OF botanic gArien. 1873 q
Expenses OF capitol police. 3s,3OO
Total for House 26t.t 700
Expenses for both houses. ............$; 81 6ls
This does not in dude SIS, OOo appro-
priated by the two houses jointly tor
the salary OF the Pablo Printer and
penses of the Public Printers office.
nor does it include the enOrmou, ex-
Pense of printing the pubic documents,
the Congressional Record, and all man
ner OF public printing ordered by Con-
gress. There are thousands Of eople
employed in the printing Office of
whom it is impossible to get any rec
ord. They arc employed on piece
work. and it is impos IDLE to estimate
what will be needed to pay them
There is not department # the
government thai does not i1cu lie in
its estimate, u smaller or great r
amount for the printing of It's own de-
partment, and that brings up the cost
Of the printing but eau to figures which
it would be impossible to follow out
G:e.t Expense :or Clerks.
The gros lest lite Y in the senate and
House hi of expense are the charges
for clerk hire. 1t long ago tecame Il
bywOrd that there often We're more
clerks sitting III the Senate in their
employers chairs than there were Sem
ators. 1t is true. When Senators feel
that they can afford t. appoint their
sons. their hrothcrs, their brother in
law and any other male members of
their family to act as their secret ~
and draw the piti.ul 81 month,
they ought not to he ashamed OF
their presence on the floor. and
perhaps they are no. There are
: majors and many of them VINO
have not only placed their sons on the
payroll but who have Unstable | wives
and daughte,', as their private secre-
taries and stenographer-. thus keeping
the amount allowed fer clerk hire all
in the family. And among the Sena-
tors who have thus prOvid> d for thei
dependents are those best known to
the country as leaders. There is no
way of getting ut The name. Of the
people who draw those salar e.. but it
is an open secret that fully one half
the Senators have tn ir ;, rs or some
memb o. their family on the pay
roll. Perhaps nobody should blame
the Senators OF eli he: party for tn $
aiding in the support OF their depend
ents, Tor they Law an i'll :>triouS exam
pie II the Vice President of the United
Staes. whose first olriciat act after
taking oath was Ia app int his son his
private secretary.
While the House Of Representatives
is in a general way more co thy than
the Senate. that fact must be attrib.
uted to its create membership. but
the House is tear.,i ing fast Fer years
1t has been trying TO have q corps Of
clerks, en- for each member. like those
appointed by the Senate. it is only
within the past year that the Senat,
won d cor ent to this. but finally
through me ms OF a deal it wa, ace M
pliShed. 1t is the s.iiest innovation
that the Ho Sc has made il its ex-
penses in many years 1t involves in
fact. : much mo.ey tia. every method
of Disgusting the real expenditure is
employed. There Il e Is m bers OF
the House. o. whom about o.. not be-
ing chairman .ommittees. are en-
titled to this clerical benefit Under
the new rule each melEb Der. not a chair
man. = entitled to $40 per month dur
ing the ession FIR clerk hire Care
was taken in the wording Of the reso-
luton that the members shall not APP
point a clerk To draw tina: salary. but
that he should draw that sum him.
self a Z use 1t as he sees tit in hiring
clerical help. This serves a doubt.
purp1Se. FIRST il KEEPS a lot Of names
OF he payroll. where it is no. desir-
abe To have them ana ag sin. il Il Con-
gresham does not want TO employ Il
clerk, not need ng che. ne can d aw
the money ana put it in his own po *
ct and il is an oren secret that many
of them Go it. Nothing since the IA
NOUS back-pay scandal years ago ha,
grated SO unrleasantly upon the Con.