The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-05-31
WHAT THE SENATE
COST YOU.
IT is OVER $ eco 600 FOR Sc SEsITORS
FOR kFeW MONTHS.
THIS Is OVER $4,000 FOR EACH
ONE.
EX-CONGRES>N TOM WATSON CIV
rs THE RECORD.

An Unlawful use and Vast of Your Mon.
ev.---1he People should Watch How
Their M"ney il spent a. Wen as How ii
| i. Collected
The Senate of the United State il
composed of lightweight members.
not counting the Nice-President
(who is its presiding officer as one Of
the body.
Let us see what it coasts vou
to support this august assem-
bly,.
Taking the official report of the
Secretary of the Senate for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1891, | find
that the salary and mileage of these
lightweight Senators cost yOu ?464,-
S52.I9.
For pay of Secretary of the Senate,
pay of clerks, messengers, mail-car-
riers, pages, folders, engineers, la
borerS, telegraph operator, chaplain,
door-keepers, carpenters, conductors
of elevator, stenographers, librarian,
stationery-keeper, ETC., S4OS, ,6S2.l7.
For one months extra pay for all the
employees of the Senate, $41, ,1O2.-
10.
The 'Fextra pay is grab, pure
and simple. BY this indirect meth
cd of stealing your tax money, the
Secretary of the Senate gets $40 as
gift; the chief clerk gets $3.50; the
principal clerk gets $2l6; the finan-
cial clerk gets $3.50; the principal
executive clerk gets $2lG; the Journ-
nal clerk gets $2l6; the enrolling
clerk S2l6; assistant financial clerk
$500; librarian $lS5; assistant libra
rian $l20; six other clerks $lS5 each;
five more clerks Sl15 each; the keep
er of the stationery $50; his assis-
tant $03; two messengers $l2O each;
five laoorers $50 each; ten pages $75
each; secretary to the vice-president
SlS5; messenger to same $l20; tele-
graph operator 800; twenty-odd
other clerks $1S5 each, twenty-odd
laborers $3.50 each; twenty odd com
mittee clerks $3.50 each; the clerks of
the Senators $3.50 each-and so
on, unit! the one months extra
pay amounts to the sum already sta
ted.
The next item is for the police.
For January, February, March,
April, May and June they cost you
$lS,300. They got a full months
extra pay also.
The next item of expense is for
stationery and newspapers. The
amount from October 8, 1890,
to June 20, 1891, was $11.6O6.
Sc.
Horses and wagons come next.
From July, 1890, they consumed
your taxes to the extent of S5,1S2.
! 81.
Materials for folding speeches and
documents come next. The envel-
opes, paste, twine, tape, cast you, from
July :, 1890. to July IL, 1891, 81
S9S.42.
Next comes the itemized state
ment of what you pay to have these
speeches and documents "folded"
which simply means pasting the
wrappers on speeches, documents and
books. From July 13, 1890, to June
l, 1891, you paid the envelopes pas
ters $l2,976.O4.
For fuel, for heating purposes,
you paid, between July, 1890, and
June, 1891, nearly eleven thousand
dollars.
For new furniture and carpets,
clocks, ETC., between March, 1890,
and June 2, 1891, these lightweight
Senators spent upwards of
eight thousand dollars of your mon
ey.
For cleaning and repairing old
furniture they spent more than seven
teen hundred dollars.
For packing boxes they spent ST.,
O73.
For miscellaneous items set forth
from page SO to page So Of the re.
port the spent 22,95O90. Those
items include typewriters, private
telegraph lines connecting the Sen.
ate with various public offices, chis-
els, drills, screw drivers, rat-traps
quinine pills, bay rum, cologne, ice
gum camphor, and an empty bottle
1t also includes $500 paid to Har-
ris & Shafer for winding the Senate
clocks for three months. The Sena
tors also wanted one hundred copies
of certain decisions of the Supreme
court. Had them printed at your ex-
pense. Only 1888. Even money
you see.
Then come another lot of miscel
laneous items, commencing on page
IS and ending on page 81. They
amount to 81 1860.
They include the washing and iron
ing of fifteen hundred and ninety
five dozens of towels.
5 copies of Webster's Dictionary
| s lemon squeezers.
3 ladies.
sugar spoons.
l china bowl.
strainers.
6 lemon knives.
l sugar scoop, and II tumhlers,
Then come costly pitchers, granu
lated sugar, lemons, appollinarie
water, soda, sweet oil, l,soap, camphor
alcohol, quinine pills, more soap, ha.
rum, German cologne, quinine hal
tonic, Lubin's powders, sponges, saV
dust, fans by the gross, and stree ca
tickets by the hundred!
{ Then from page 81 to page 70