The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-17

| cost of the house, though the house has
four times as many members as the senate
Take recent appropriations for year, for
example and the items are found TO run
as follows
General salaries ....... .sii5 lC5 co $3.50 i7s q
| capitol police. ............ 1900 W l,4OO Ot
c cSP3ireg aeSs9s ioi $50 $50 3 3
Deficiencies ana misceila.
neous. .. - 1909 Of i2oo55 a.
Compiling directory. ........., l,2U0 w
Totals ..................sCl 7.s5l % s7O7.SOl 81
Tho senate has greater number of EN-.
| ployees than the house and pays Them
larger salaries on an average. 1t spends
| money moro freely in every direction and
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 timo in the press have been
very Instructive But here Is one which
will convey the whole truth 10 the reader
at glance. 1t costs the country to keep
its statesmen in Washington one year, in.
Guiding salaries mileage and oil other ox-
penses, as follows;
For each senator. Observation-Disclosures $40 go
FOR each representative, ..............,.. 1000
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 ut q cost Of 50 each. Ordinary chairs
were not good enough, but they must be
made 10 order. This Is one of the little
fads of the senate. and q very expensive
fad, too, for I'm the list of expenditures wo
find combination file cabinet, made TO
order, Sl25:" "ono mahogany table made
10 order, $780," etc. The financial clerk
must bo very important official, for it
required GO yards of French wilton carpet
Mt 81 80 yard, to carpet his room. For
the privatS room OF senator Zone rocker
In olive leather, $50" Sofa couches arc
bought for senator's rooms at cost of $40
each One desk cost 500. Zone full
length mahogany mirror for special COM
mittee room, S75" suggests that the
statesmen are fond Of looking at them
selves. That they like TO take their case
we know from such items as 1.-TWO down
pillows for committee on additional accom-
modations for library Of congress, $3.50"
-four couch cushions, at $S.50-S34,"
zone leather chair. 500. "onu oak chair,
s45, lone leather chair, $50. 30, Zone
extra large cushion, S." and so on at
great length Even hatrack for the COM
mitteo on foreign relations was of antique
oak and cost 500.
Every senator is entitled TO n "paoking
box, " so called, made by the carpenters i'm
the basement. These boxes are artistically
made. They are virtually trunks Their
cost is about $1,000 year.
Toiiing Over tho Tariff.
Perhaps the country supposes the sena-
tors work themselves nearly to death pre-
pairing tariff statistics. In the last 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 the
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 So, 522. SO for services
IN preparing tariff statistics.
What lot of statistics on tho tariff ques-
tion all this expenditure must have assem-.
bled No wonder the senators could scarce
ly pass tarin bill on account of tho mum
Der of speeches to be made
Specimen Items.
But this is not all Further examina.
ton of tho miscellaneous expenditures"
of tho 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; |
i. Durfee, S65; r. l.. Cromlein, SlS6: e. |
Fcchet, Sl6S; \. w. Vale, SlS6; j. w. |
Banby, $50; Il. Eechet, $50; l.. NJ. Vale, |
$3.50; r. L. Cromelin, $3.50; s. II Fields, |
z
Z. j McHenry, S522; e. Fechet. 1886; L. |
Nj. Vale, SlS6, and so on to length that |
betokens an extremely valuable book
Lemonade for the senate Is serious item
Of expense to the people, as tho following
shows:
For Ill cases Of apollnaris water go
quarts eachl, furnished from July
70 ol, loll NJ 81 30 case. ..,....... s32 80 |
y boxes of lemons, furnished be-
tween same dates. at $40 n box. go 90
LUZ pounds granulated sugar, fur
nished from July TO lG, at Si.35
100 pounds eranulatcd sugar. fur. 20
nlshed from July IL to 81, at Si.G0 a
hundred NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 40 90
That was pretty good for one month.
Twelve hundred dollars for apollinaris
lemonade In July, 1894 This does not in
'lude tho ice, which cost for the month
siI5. 81.
Inc following items are also suggestive:
Tor bottle Yucca tonic ........... s.
bottles lsterinc, at 80 cents MN. 81 80 |
b dozen bottles Brown Jamaica gin.
,ger..,.... ,...............,......,. 225
90 grain qunine pills. at 80 cents. 90
w grain qulnine pills at 40 cents so |
~ gallons alcohol. mt - 10. .......... 10 50 |
? pound Butts bromo lthia......., IS
dozen society hygienic soap, at S31 II Is
10 pounds Rock Island :, W. sponges
at 81 So Observation-Disclosures go 20
2 hslerlnc, OF ~ .........,........... 4 80
dozen No. All cologne. at S525... IS IS
dozen nailbrushCs ................... 8 OD
bottles Pinapd's hair tonic quarts
AZ f-OV. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. is 90 |
bottles Yucca hair tonic, at $l..... 2CO
bottles Dollard's hair tonic, at 81. POO |
dozen flesh brushes ................. II co
. dozen bath spOnges. ................ aG0
boxes cuticura salvc. at IS cents. 90 |
bag ground alum salt....... ........ %
ounces essential oils, OF - cpnts..,. 30
dozen T NJ backing, at 81. ID. 2M
dozen patcnt leather polish. ......... go
dozen backing brushcs............ pCO
dozen Hyganique soap, NJ S3.50... ~ 50 |
dram altar of rose, $3.50. and I
ounce ounce seed. ~ cents......... leo
WALTER WELLMAN
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