The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-05-31
What The Senate Cost You.
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Reporting debates 25.0O00 %
More misceilanies 3,S44 90
Additional employees 2,i9o 90
Paid for tariff statistics 1000 90
Congressional directory 100000

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Add ap all these various sums aud
you will find the aggregate exceeds
one million dollars.
In other words, there is no mate
rial difference between the regular
expenses of one year and another.
The number of funerals aud cost of
same constitute the only difference
which | can find.
Do not understand me to say that
all this money is illegal or wastefully
spent. Salaries for the Senators;
reasonable clerk hire; reasonable
supplies of furniture, of books, of
stationery, of fuel, etc, are abso-
lutely necessary to the Senate. as to
every other legislative body.
But do say it's shame TO fit up
elegant bathrooms, bar rooms, res
taarants and barbershops at your
expense when you derive no revenue
whatever from those expenditures,
and when those OUTLAWS are so un-
necessary to the discharge of Senate
rial duties.
| do say it's a shame that you
should pay for backing the boots,
shaving the faces, oiling the hair,
whitening the cheeks, busting the
clothes and cleaning the finger-nails
of your Senators.
do say it's shame that You have
to pay for the carriages which are
sent for them when they dead lock
national business by their absence;
for alcohol, lemonade, apollinaries
water for their personal comfort; for
the needless extravaganza with which
they crafty their taste for fine furn-
iture: for their funerals when dead,
and for the salary which is voted the
widow of a man who did not earn it,
| | do say it's a shame that every
Granny and corridor about the Sen
ate should be rammed and jammed
with unnecessary employees until
they almost block up the passages,
and Their that the entire lot shosld
have a gift made to them, every ses
sion, OF one months extra pay out of
your money.
! do say that it's shame to spend
so much Of your money on police,
and horses, and folding and clerks
and assistant clerks, when everybody
knows that the taxpayer is harder
up for means to pay his taxes than
ever before.
The extra pay is illegal: the fune-
raj business is illegal: the continu.
ance of salaries to deceased Sena-
tors is illegal; the bathroom, barber
shop and restauran ut expenditures are
| Illegal; the bar-roOrl business is ille-
gal; the purchase Of medicines for
Senators is illegal.
Glance over the items in the &C.
count and you will be impressed with
the fact that the amount Of your
money spent by the Senate, illegally
and needlessly, exceeds a quarter OF
a million dollars for the few months
of each year that they are in session
You may say this is a small sum
You may say | am raising a row
over small thing.
Not so. What want to do is to
convince you that your whole nation
al system is afflicted with the deadly
virus of lawleSsneSs, extravaganza
and criminal neglect of your inter
ests, and | can do this in no better
way than to lay before you the &C
tual facts in regard to each depart
ment of your national government
This article concludes what | have
to say about the Senate.
Last week the House was over
hauled.
Next the Executive Mansion.
Then the State department, post
office department, ETC., each in it
turn.
By the time I get through hope t,
have given you pretty clear idea O.
the whole administrative machinery
together with the cost of running it
In each instance | will give yor
the facts as reported by the govern
ment itself.