Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-03

stabIemen at $40 each. S1,0so.
II will be seen that the eighty-eight
gentlemen comprising the Senate re-
ouire a force Of 219 persons to wait upon
them. at an annual cost OF S29S, $40 80 TO
the public treasury. Add to this the sal
aries of eighty-eight Senators at S5,OoO
each, and we have a grand total OF
S73s, SIC. 90 paid annually by Uncle sam
10 his hired people in the Senate alone
But if taxpayers shrink aghast from
this eXtraVagant outlay, let them turn
their attention TO the expenses OF the
House. and they will find that on hor-
ror's head horrors accumulate. rms
august body employs one chaplain, $500;
private secretary to Speaker, 81, lo2 40;
thirty-fve clerks, at an average OF 81
294. So 81 each, S77, $3.50; nifty mess
engers, at an average OF 81, l42 90 eacn,
S57. 12S; twenty-five clerks 10 various
committees, at an average Of 81, 0lS 2-ll
each, S44, 400; two messengers TO con-
mittees, at 81 200 each, 81, 600; depart
ment messenger, 81 900; three pages, at
S72O each, 50. 100; one page, at $500;
twenty -four laborers, at an average OF
S7O9 1853 each, SIT, 020; librarian, S2'OOo;
two assistants, at Sl,SOO each'
So, 600; bookkeeper, $1,000; lock
smith, 81, 44O; assistant file clerk,
5000; telegraph operator, S9Oo;
sergeant-at-arms. 81, 500; deputy serg-
eant-at-arms, $1,000; cashier, $4,000;
paying teller, $1,000; bookkeeper,
81. 500; postmaster, 81, 500; assistant
postmaster, 50, 900; doorkee per, $500;
assistant doorkeeper, $1,000; janltor'
81, 200; superintendent document ROOM
So. 600: assistant rntendent docu-
ment room, 50, 600; especial employe
whatever that may mean) " 800; Two
chief pages, at 5000 each. Sl,SOU; az
tendant in ladies room, 5000; superin'
tendent OF folding room, ~
600; foreman Of folding roon'
81. 500; one folder, 81, 200; ten folders AZ
5000 each, $4,000; five folders at So4O
each, $1,000; fifteen folders al S'zo
each. $40 500; driver, 5000; watchman'
$780, Chief Engineer, Sl,7Oo; Two as
sistant engineers at 81, 200 each, S2,4OO;
four elevator conductors At 81, 100 each
s.. 400: five fremen at 5000 each,
S4 500: electrician, 81, 200; CHIEF olncIal
reporter on debates, $4,000. Tour as
sistants at So, 200 each, 5000 TWO
stenographers to committees at S4'OOO
each. S.. 600: chief indexer TO journal
of Congress. 50, 500; eight assistant III
dexers. at an average OF $1,000 each,
IS, OOO
This list shows that the mem
bers OF the House require 227
persons to wait upon them, or only
eight more than are required by che
much smaller number OF Senators, and
the cost OF this House force is S337,-
SOC. 20. or about $50 600 more than the
Senate employees receive. Now, add TO
this the salaries Of the 356 Representa-
tiyes az So, 900 each. and we have
grand total Of 80, III. 500 % paid annu-
ally by Uncle Sam TO his hired people IN
the House. Add to this the S73S, $40 30
spent on the Senate, aud we have
=. $50, 6S6.10 as the total pay roll
of Congress. But it must be borne
in mind that this enormous outlay
does not begin TO represent the cost or
running the Senate and House. The
expenses for stationery, printing and
other eztravagances are simply tabu-
lous. All the salaries are excessive.
The pages receiving 5000 are boys from
III 10 ii year >. ! no 81 . SIM ~ uiAN
IS per week would be liberal. Clerks
receiving 50, 600 20 $4,000 year could
not obtain 81. 600 anywhere else. La
borers receiving 5000 per year would be
bod carriers at Sl.25 per day If they
we're not able to make themselves use
full" to members OF Congress- But not
only is poor Uncle Sam thus robbed d.
rectly; he is plundered Indirectly as
well. The proprietor of the pub
lie barroOm, which, greatly to
our credit as nation, is
maintained il the Capitol, pays nothing
whatever for the privilege, though it is |
very valuable, and a large sum would /
be realized for it il it were awarded to /
the highest bidder, instead of being dis |
posed of by favoritism, through the /
form of an election. But when the time /,
for that election comes round, oh, how |
the candidates must go down into their /
stockings and "see" the honorable Con-
gressmen upon whose votes they are de- |
pendent for success.
I regret that l have not space to |
pursue the subject further, but | hope !
that what l have written may stimu- |
late my contemporaries to investigate |
more closely how Cncle Sam is robbed. |
GEORGE II. TowNE.