Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-16

OF the house, though the house has foul
times as many members as the senate
Take recent appropriations for year, fol
example, and the items are found to run
as follows:
House. Senate
General salaries. ...,... SAB l65 &c 1885, rs %
p ol' ponce' ............ 9400 w 9,4Ul q
Contingent expenses. lo7, 793 40 $3.50 0t
Deficiencies and miscella-
ch'ouS.....: ,...,........, to,92 VI l2g, Oo5 a
Compiling directory ........ l. 200 &C
Totals Observation-Disclosures l7, 45l 81 s7o7, 3o4 81
The senate has greater number of EN-
ployees than the house and pays them lar
ger salaries on an average. 1t spends
money more freely in every direction ana
when its own convenience or comfort is
concerned rarely stops to count the cost
Some of the statements and comparisons
made by Senator Chandler and published
from time to time in the press have been
very instructive. But here is one which
will convey the whole truth to the reader
at glance. 1t costs the country to keep
its statesmen n Washington one year, in
GLIDING salaries mileage and all other ex
penses, as follows:
For each senator. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3 2I
For each representative. ZOO
For Senatorial Comfort.
Many Of the items of miscellaneous"
expenses of the senate will be found inter.
esting and suggestive. For instance, 80
walnut chairs without arms, for commit
tee rooms, were made to order in single
year at cost of 50 each. Ordinary chairs
were not good enough, but they must be
"made to order" This is ono of the little
fads of the senate, and a very expensive
fad, too, for in the list of expenditures we
find combination file cabinet, made to
order, $l25, lone mahogany table, made
to order, 500, etc. The financial clerk
must be very important official, for it
required 63 yards of French wilton carpet,
at 80 yard, to carpet his room. For
the private room of q senator, lone rocker
in olive leather, $50 Sofa couches are
bought for senator's rooms at cost of $40
each. One desk cost 500. lone full
length mahogany mirror for special com
mittee room, $75," suggests that the
statesmen are fond of looking at them
selves. That they like to take their ease
we know from such items as two down
pillows for committee on additional &C.
conmodations for library of congress,
$3.50; -four couch cushions, at S. 90,
S34; lone leather chair, $780, lone oak
chair, $45;" lone leather chair, S37 50;"
lone extra large cushion, IS" and so on
at great length. Even hatrack for the
committee on foreign relations was of an
tique oak and cost 500
Every senator is entitled to packing
box, SO called, made by the carpenters in
the basement. These boxes arc artistically
made. They are virtually trunks Their
cost is about 81, GOO year.
Toiling Over the Tariff.
Perhaps the country supposes its sena-
tors work themselves nearly to death pre-
pairing tariff statistics. In the past con
gress tariff bill was up The house
passed it first, and in doing so had pub.
lished all imaginable sorts Of statistics
But when the finance committee of tho
senate took up the matter it proceeded to
make some Investigations of its own, and
found that various individuals had been
paid the neat sum of IS, To-. 33 for services
in preparing tariff statistics.
What lot of statistics on the tariff
question all this expenditure must have
assembled, No wonder the senators could
scarcely pa tariff bill ON account of the
number Of speeches to be made
Specimen Items.
bub un1S is not ali. furtHer eXamlna-
ton of the miscellaneous expenditures
of the senate shows the same committee
on finance paying out, largely to the Same
persons named in the foregoing list, for
services rendered in preparation of paper
money and loan laws of the United
States" amounts as follows: S. Helen
Fields, 500; B. Durfee, sos; r. T.
Cromelin, 1856; E. Fechet, $16s; A. W.
Vale, 1886; j. W. Banby, S75; f. Fechet,
$3.50; L. NJ. Vale, $3.50; r. f. Cromelin,
$3.50; S. II. Fields, 800; j. W. Banby,
SIS; B. Durfee, s117; p. J. McHenry,
$500; E. Fechet, 1886; l.. NJ. Vale, sls6,
and SO on to "a length that betokens an ex-
tremely valuable book.
Lemonade for the senate is serious
item of expense to the people, as the fol-
lowing shows:
For III cases of apollinaris water go
quarts EACH, furnished from July
l to 81, 1894, at ESQ ase......... 1872 50 |
62 boxes of lemons, furnished be-
tween same dates. at $50 box 219 90
10O6 pounds granulated sugar, fur
nished from July to 16, at $4.35a
1000 pounds granulated sugar, fur
nished from July II to 81, at s4.GOa
hundred ............................ 49,
That was pretty good for one month |
1WSiN6 IOT apOlllQarlS
lemonade in July, 1894! This does not
include the ice, which cost for the month
$445.91
The following items are also suggestive: !
For bottle Yucca tonic. ............. SIS !
bottles listerlne, at 70 cents. ........ 81 50 |
a dozen bottles Browns Jamaica GIN
ger .......................... 225
aU grain Qu1nlne pills, at 10 cents. 60 |
200 grain quinine pills, at 40 cents. 10 |
AZ gallons alcohol, at -. ~. ......... 10 SO |
- pound Butts bromo lithia. ~ IS |
dozen society hygienic soap, at 1915. IL % |
ITO pounds Rock Island S. W. sponges
at s2.55. :...................... $50 80
= listerine, at So .................... $50
dozen No. All cologne, at S. Is IS |
dozen nailbrushes. .......... 500 |
bottles Pinaud's hair tonic quarts
at y. d. .............. 5 &C
2 bottles Yucca hair tonic, at Sl 200 /
bottles Dolard hair tonic, at ST. 200
! dozen fleshbrushes.. Observation-Disclosures. II ~ |
= dozen bath sponges. go /
boxes cuticura salve. at As cents 90 |
bag ground alum salt. ........... Go |
ounces essential oils, at 35 cents 40 |
dozen T. NJ. backing, at 81. TO- 2 20 |
dozen patent leather polish. .....,.. 40
dozen backing brushes. ...... 900 |
dozen Hygianique SOAP at $780,. 10 SO |
dram altar of rose. $l.50. and
ounce ounce seed, 10 cents. .. GO
When your white satin neck ribbons
get soiled brush them with soap and water