The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-12-19

WI notice that In the ase OF the late
Senator Kenna, OF this state, who died
at Washington In 1898, the Item OF said
supplies covers over S4S2 IS, which
amount, considering the shortRess OF
the distance from Washington to the
home OF the deceased, must be consider
ed as a very liberal confiscation, indeed,
OF the public funds by those who were
~masquerading as a sympathetic COM
mittee of secort, This sum OF SiS2 IS
did not, we regret TO notice, include the
expense OF breakfast at Anderson for
the committee OF senatorial mourners.
There was $50 rs extra for that After
pulling at those expensive commissary
supplies all night. and possibly suffer-
ing from the effects OF draw poker, they
Were not in a mood to spare any expense
for a sustaining breakfast and possibly
ordered all that the woods around AL
derson afforded, "possum and coon
gravy not excepted, Whatever was
the menu served the account rendered
would have done credit to Delmonico'
II must have been a very tony rate, in
deed. per capita.
AZ Charleston the committee would
seem to have bought out the livery
stables, At least one would suppose
that they had purchased a proprietary
interest in them TO the extent OF 1904 90,
which was the bill for carriages at that
place. II there was any Impecunious
person In Charleston who did not get q
free ride to the funeral on that occasion
II must have been from the neglect OF
the committee 10 send out into tho II
try and bring in all the wheeled vehicles
that were left In the county. The bill
for carriages need not necessarily to
have been outranked by the commits
sary bill. In fact, II would have looked
better in the report to see the carriage
bill the larger OF the two. especially as
there was a total of 5000 IS to divide up
In he way OF expenses, This is the aG-
gregatS that was drawn from the
United States treasury after the return
OF the committee, N,164 90 OF which went
to pay for three Pullman cars and
combination car used on the journey,
In view of the disclosures which sena-
tor PETER has made as to the manner in
which the treasury is %plundered by
these so.cnlled funeral committees,
which are scarcely above the level OF
professional free %lunchors." It was
high time, indeed. that the resolution
with which he prefaces his disclosures,
should have been offered. 1t reads as
follows:
Be 1t enacted. etc, That Whenever, dur.
ing a session OF the Congress OF tho
United States, a member OF the senate
or house OF representatives shall, DIE az
any place within the District OF COLUMBIA.
the house Of which, he was a melnper
shall appoint n special committee OF us
members 10 properly prepare and incahe
the body OF the deceased and forward Y,
in charge OF n serRoant'at.armA specially
appointed, 10 the home OF the deceased
| and deliver II to his family, or TO MS reih-
lives and friends In case he had no family
Sec. Z That no action or proceeding re-
qulring the expenditure OF public money;
other than Is herein provided Tor, hhhll
he taken or had in case OF the death OF
my senator or representative.
The above is a resolution that the sem
ate and likewise the house should pass
without debate. Those who do not ex-
pect to die at Washington, as well as
those who may be uncertain on that
point. should. for the good name of tn,
country and for the protection OF their
constituents, enact this resolution into
a law.