The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-14

What the expenditures will be for
1899. the last year of the present re-
gime, it is of course impossible to say.
Even assuming that it is only as high
as the average of the past five years,
namely, $4,000, a total footing of the
six years of furnishing expenses, ex-
elusive of salaries, would be upward
of S102, 600
Additional to these expenses, the Sc
nate has on its roll, one upholsterer
and locksmith at S1440 per annum and
three carpenters at $3.50 each. These
employees are apparently kept so busy
however. that it is necessary to ex-
pend large sums additional for ordi-
nary repairs to furniture and for maxi
ing chests, etc.s Senators are furnished
each year with three wooden packing
chests. These. are perfectly plain boxes
such as any carpenter can quickly
make, yet they are supplied by out
side labor at a cost annually of about
$1,000.
There are various other little items
which the senate, in its dignity, must
needs appropriate money for. For in
stance, in the senate chamber, halls
and committee rooms, there are num-
erous clocks; to wind these clocks it
costs over $500 annually Not that
they are in any way intricate or require
particular or expert winding but the
of the senate have other things on hand
whether the senate be in session for
three or nine months
A further examination of the printed
expense account shows that the senate
has INDUCED in other little extrava
games unknown to Jefferson. Under
each year are found sums appropriated
for various articles for personal use,
such as ordinary people pay out of their
private pcckets-drugs of various kinds,
mineral waters etc. During the first
year after the democratic organization
the expenditures for such articles, in
Guiding hair brushes, soap. hair tonic,
bay rum. eau de cologne, some 10000
grains of quinine, and settler and ap-
pollinaris waters. and excluding labor
and ice. were quite economical. being
only 81 93s.54 but the following year,
1885 when the democratic management
had gotten fairly TO economizing, these
expenses mounted up to S4.551.75. In
1896 they We're $S05I.75 and in 1887 g.,
4205S.
Last summer. it will. be remembered,
was extremely hot and dry throughout
the country. and the halls of congress
we've no exception. What then is more
natural than to find on the senate ex-
peuse account, an appropriation for
purchases during the latter part. of June
and July. 1898, of 70 cases of lemons,
costing $Szb, ana 100 cases Of Czoidte
Iithia water. costing s115264 with nine
barrels of graduated sugar for sweet
ening purposes. 4 striking feature Of
this etonomy. however it an accompa
nvings memorandum showing the re-
turn Of 5000 empty bottles and rebate
therefor at l cent each, amounting to
$50 10 be applied on future supplies.
These refreshments in conjunction with
the 26.500 grains of quinine and vari-
~. .otha,. drfieS stated in the printed
LEI a. having been purchased. and
amounting in total to sS6Ss-S0 kept
most OF the senator's in fair health dur
ing the season.
There are various other necessary
EXPENSES not here mentioned During
the fiscal year of 1895 however, what
may be classed as the total furniture
e~narses of the senate. under the man
agement Of the party OF Jefferson, as