Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1897-03-02

1000 quiniDe pills were also sent to the
Capitol building, although the Senate was
not in session, and the medicine must evil
IDENTIFY have been intended for the en-
ployes. 1t is possible that 1000 quinine
pills charged up November 28th might
have been in anticipation of the meeting
of the Senate week later, although il has
not generally been supposed that quinine
is among the list Of perquisites of the
United States Senatorship.
The singular array Of BARRIERS tools and
indictments suggests that the little bar
Der shop, which is exclusively for the use
of the Senators, must be we'll supplied,
although they do go at it in rather
wholesale manner, as shown by the fact
that on that eventlul November 2Sth
there were sent down to the Senate cham
Der four dozen combs, two dozen small
combs, a gross of French blacking, six
dozen of patent leather polish, two boxes
of shaving soap, dozen BARRIERS whisk
brooms, three bottles of hair tonic at 81
bottle, two large boxes of skin salve,
gross of cologne, six dozen Of extra whisk
brooms, and ten gallons of bay rum. Yet
it is hardly possible that the items of one
dozen bottles of Jamaica ginger. dozen
bottles of bromolithia, half dozen cakes
of carbonate of magnesia, half dozen
bottles of hygienic oil and five pounds of
Copenhagen snuff could have been for
the use of the barber
They pay So apiece for cuspidors in the
Senate, and there is an item, November
25th, for half dozen, amounting 10 $50,
and November Goth $50 cuspidor mats
were made to order at 800
1t is interesting to note that when the
Senate was in session the account for
washing towels ran up to the total of 539
dozen in month at an expense of s177.
December 31st the jewelry firm got its
regular item of $40 for winding and regu
latng the clocks, and a week or so before
S. for cleaning an old eight-day wood.
cased hanging clock in the ladies retir
ing room, which is probably worth SO 70.
The heating and ventilating department
is no SLOUGH of a concern in the United
States Senate, for February 18th it gath
cred its energies together and spent 800
for one steelplate wheelbarrow. Cuspi
doris at SO apiece and in six dozen lots are
charged for at intervals of every month
or so, and single repairs on a typewriter
run as high as SIS clip
The same jewelry store which winds
the clock for a consideration, and repairs
for the same reason, was given a contract
to make from a specially prepared design
u sterling silver inkstand for the Vice
Presidents room one foot two inches
long by nine inches wide and five inches
high, and for this they received 5000
Not content with this, when the pendu.
lum and spring of an eight-day clock in
the Committee on Pensions room needed
repairs, they charged 81 for it January
Goth although they were paid $50 for
regulating and winding the same clocks
as usual during January and February.
The drug firm during the last quarter
Of the fiscal year supplied the usual
amount of medicine and other things,
including 1000 quinine pills February
5th, 1000 March 23d, and 1000 March
eth
The poor old Senators must be badly
afflicted with malaria, and yet the Capitol
Building is set on hill well above the
miasma Of the swamp land.