New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-11
Fastening her own death. The funeral will be held
at their home Tomorrow at II a. The burial will
take place at Sleepy Hollow.
THE COST THEN AND NOW.
MODERN STATESMEN ARE EXPENSIVE
LUXURIES.
THEIR AVERAGE COST TO CHE COUNTRY FOUR
TINES WHAT IT WAS WHEN j. @. ADAMS.
RUFUS CHoATE. DANIEL WEBSTER
HENRY CLAY. THOMAS H. BENTON
AND THEIR CoMPEERs SAT
IN CONGRESS.


rBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBuNE.1
Washington. May 10.-When the resolution to
allow each Representative and Delegate 500
month TO pay for clerical services when Congress
ie not in session was under discussion in the
House Of Representatives on Friday. the point
was not raised as TO whether not the allow
ance would begin az soon az the term Of the
Representative or Delegate should begin TO wit,
on the fourth day OF March succeeding his cleo
ton. Inasmuch the Representative or Dele
gate now receives his salary monthly from March
4 after his election until Congress assemblies on
the first Monday Of the following December al
though he does not qualify until the latter date
the resolution will doubtless be construed so as
to give him the 800 month allowance
for clerk hire during that period In other words.
he will receive an allowance on that account
amounting to 50 400 for each Congress. He will
also receive $4,000 on account of his own salary
and $3.50 on account OF stationery allowance for
each Congress- making total Of S126oO This
does not include any sums to which he Is entitled
on account OF mileage.
1t Is neither impertinent nor uninterestns TO
compare this total with the paid to Sena-
tore Representative nd Delegates In the XXlld
Congress as Compensation and mileage They
received allowances on account or clerk hire
and stationery. There lies before the writer a
copy of Peter Farcrs National Calendar" for the
year 1894. Inasmuch as his name Is stamped on
the cover In gold letters. THE copy Is supposed
to have been at one time the property OF Roger
b. Taney who In 1894 was President Jacksons
Secretary of the Treasury. On pages 80 and 81
Is a table headed: PAY OF Members of XXIId
Congress
Some distinguished and eminent men-rnen
whose names and deeds are still remembered
a..
Of Representatives sat John quincy Adams who
had been President Of the United States. His
Compensation and mileage" for the entire Con-
gress amounted to the princely sum OF S'.32S
Another distinguished Massachusetts statesman
who then sat in that House OF Representatives
was Rufus Choate. and his compensation and
mileage" for the entire Congress amounted to
So 33S 2O-they were careful OF the cents In those
DAYS Still another eminent Massachusetts
statesman who sat IN their Congress was 3D.
ward Everett, and he received exactly as much
as Mr.. Adams did-S3.32S.
Further on one finds the name OF James *
Polk of Tennessee. afterwari Speaker OF the
House Of Representatives and President OF me
United States. For compensation and mNeare
for that Congress Mr.. Polk received S3.G3l 90
Andrew Stevenson. OF Virginia. was Speaker OF
tie House and his compensation and mileage
for the entire Congress amounted 10 S'',-1- Nj
a trne more than the amount that his success
esor from the Richmond district now receives FOR
n single years salary and stationery allowance.
TO say nothing OF 81 200 a year for the hire OF
clerk.
Some illustrious men also sat In the Senate In
the XXIId Congress. There was Daniel WeD-
ster for example. His "cOmpenta ton ana mile
age" for the entire Congress amounted 10 S''-
1872. william l.. Marcy. another future SecIe-
tary of State. also sat In that Congress. Ills
"compensation and mileage for the entire Con-
press amounted to the snug sum OF SZi1S linen
there wac John Forsythe. so soon To become
President Jackson's Secretary OF state. Ills
"compensation and mileage" amounted 10 S3'Jo
for the entire Congress. There also sat henry
CLAY who had been Speaker Of the House or
REPRESENTATIVES well as Secretary OF state
and his compensation and mileage ior tne
entire Congress amounted TO exactly So.foo MS
successor in the LINth Congress. Joe Black-
burn now receives $l2.G,O. 70 say nothing OF hls
mileage allowance Thomas III. Benton. "oId
pullion also sat in the XXIId Congress, and
his compensation ana mileage arloun'cu ~
81 900 his mileage allowance being large on aV-
count Of the long dlstA he was compelled 10
travel in going to and returning from lne VA
tional CAPITAL HIS successor In the LIN III C"n-
gress Is +. NJ. COckrel. 49,. a. !.
The-so examples are sufficient 10 snow thht INC
necessary cost Of making laws to govern tnis
lido and violent people" Is much heavier thah
{, us eixtv wears ago and that craftsmanship
10 n much more expensive article th'r'e uas .
than II was In the days when Jonn VuI"Ty
Adams lanes X. Polk. Henry cay lhoihas II
pon,on Daniel Webster and their conpcris S''t
{, tho Congress OF the United states. IL may
not be amse TO add that the ORDINARY ry 1.p
Of the Government exceeded lts tAP'n. .
during the existence Of the XXlld congress.