The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-16

The grand total, as before stated, is
$256, 800.
More than quarter of million
dollars in salaries alone.
For the collection of agricultural
statistics $lO2, 800 was spent during
that year: for botanical expenses, S4O,-
o0J. CThis item has already been men
tiOned.)
For Investigating the history and
habits of insects, 81 800; for biologic-
al investigations, $2l5, 900; for pomol-
oglcal information, 5000: for investi-
cations with the microscope, $4,000;
vegetable pathological investiga tions
aud experiments, $lo 1900: for chemical
experiments and Investigations, 49,
40; fibre inves LEGATIONS. $iOO,OOV: for
Investigations on forestry, $4,000: for
Illustration materials, $2,UuU; for the
purchase of seeds, sos, 400; materials
Tor foldin room, s., O00: for materials,
labor and Improvements in the expert
mental grounds and gardens, $2S, 500;
museum supplies, $1,000: for furni-
ture, cases and repairs. $l2 Geo: books
lor library, 5000: postage. $500; con-
tingcnt expenses, $4,000: saiaries and
expenses OF the bureau OF animal in
dustry, $4,000.
The annual salary of our Chief
Magistrate is $4,000, and in addition
to this he is furnished with an elegant
mansion, called the White House.
The President is very costly luxury.
First comes the cost Of elcctng him:
but the funds for this purpose are
furnished by the whiskey ring, the
sugar trust, the railroad syndicates
and an occasional speculator who buys
an Office and pays for it in advance Gas
Van Allen didD.
After election Thomas Jefferson
rode to the Capital on horcback, took
the oath Of office and afterward kept
1t. too. and it never cost the country a
cent. To administer the oath of flee
to Grover Cleveland on March 4. 1898
cost the people the sum Of 1929 &C
This sum does not embrace the cost
of the inaugural ball, or any other in
direct expense.
In the Sundry Civil bill passed by
the House on March 20, 1894, the fol-
lowing appropriations were made:
SO, 900 for new furniture and repairs;
$1,000 for fuel for mansion and sta bleS;
81: 1000 to repair the flower houses; 81 800
for same, s. GOO for same and s. 800 to
buy a picture of Benjamin Harrison.
Then you supply Mr.. Cleveland with
$4,000 to pay for lamps. matches,
p-lighters, gas and gaS-fitters, fuel,
etc, and $766 80 for electric light.
The sum total Of these items is up
ward OF $4,000.
Turning to the appropriations for
1893, | find that 81 600 was appropri-
ated for the same purpos Sc. Thus Mr..
Cleveland has drawn $1,000 out of the
treasury since March. 1893, for eXpen-
ses in the White House-no counting
his salaries and the expense of swear
ing him in.
But this is not all.
You pay $1,000 to keep the grounds
around the house in order; you fur
nish him with secretaries, clerks,
door-keeperS, steward, ushers, engi-
neer, etc, at the yearly cost OF more
than So. 900.
Then, for fear there may be a short
age somewhere, you supply him with
a "contingent fund" amounting Gin
1899 to $500.
In their campaign book of 1899 the
Democrats accused the Republicans
of wasting the peoples money on
these White House expenditures but
the regular annual sum now spent in
running the presidential establish
ment is greater than it has ever been
since the salary Of the president was
increased from So, 00o to $4,000.
Fifty clocks in the Maltby building,
already referred to, cost $l,152. 10.
Henry Burmeister has been getting
$40 per month for winding the two
clocks in the senate chamber. Here
are lot of miscellaneous items.
They include the washing and ironing
of fifteen hundred and ninety-fve
dozens of towels, five copies of Web
ster's dictionary, six lemon SqueeZer5.
two ladies, six sugar spoons, one china
bowl, four strainers, six lemon knives,
one sugar scoop and twelve tumblers.
Then comes costly pitchers. granu
lated sugar, lemons, Apollnaris water,
soda, sweet oil, soap, camphor. alcohol,
quinine pills, more soap. bay rum,
German cologne, quinine hair tonic,
Lubin's powders, sponges. sawdust,
fans by the gross and street car tick
cts by the hundred.
Then we have long stretch of very
miscellaneous items amounting to
1862, S22.33.
They include additional help to the
ovcr-worked employees already men,
toned: also pay to the widows of SEN
ators who died before their terms
were out; also pay for news apers, an
Y,
lemons, sugar and Apollinaris water,
alcohol, another tremendous amount
of towels, more quininc pills, more
SpOngeS, more sweet oil, more rat
traps, a $40 History of Greece, shaving
soap, vaseline, hand-glasS, flesh brush
es, witch hazel, white cosmetics. mag
neSia, Pinaud'S tonic, cuticura ONT
ment, bat sponges, puff ball and box
and large lots OF every know variety of
soap.
And bless my life, jar of snuff.
Bought with your money by our
dandy senators.
Then comes a great many more sill
yer pichers, lather brushes, shaving
mugs, backing brushes, another Web
ster's dictionary and a fearful lot of
towels, ice without limit and $40
ellis tory Of American Spiders and
and Their Spinning Work"
The funeral expenses Of millionaire
Senator Hearst cost $4,000. But l
have not the space, nor have my read
ers the patience, to pursue this lnves-
tigation further. Do not understand
me to say that all this money is vast
ed. Salaries for the senators and rep
rcsentativeS, and reasonable clerk
hire, reasonable supplies of furniture,
books, stationery, fuel, etc, are all
right, but the author protests, in the
name Of the American people, againS t
this lavish expenditure of money for
useless purposes when the people are