The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-01-03
|lTI0YsLlUNDRY BILL
j IN WHICH UNCLE SANS MON
Ely IS SPENT.
lent's HonsehoId-How the Ser
AAre Managed Many Matters
# SpeciaI Interest.

mare Managed any
Of Special Interest
90 ritalward the other day IN
o.atic street car l happened
hek,nd pair of rural politicians
nh no- ayold hearing their con"
|; writes a Washington cores
They were evidently from
ck, aad grievously disgrunt-
s,nattprs and things in general
,,ss tIy discussing (miGus the
s. svIIable of the world all the
II the present administrations
s,Mien of their complaint was
BECOMES of the peoples money Z
of dollars appropriated every
i AIRY on the goVernenC-lliii-
much: and where does it go
snough; the Taxpayers VINO
rDcIe Samuel pretty literally
6et money, have a right to
smething about what he does
mot that any secret is made OF
&ar. the record of the smallest
azure is open to the public, If
bic only knows where to look
have been making some IN
Iakions in out-of-the-way lines,
1 n tell YOU a few items of heavy
|ssiture which have seldom been
bill to public notice. Uncle Sam~
i laundry bill, for example,
ANY thousands Of dollars 3 year,
ID the contract is screwed down
IlOwest possible figure of So cents
hn ndred towels. The amount of
II used by congress, by the clerks
garious departments, and em~
Is ia other branches of the gov
Enc at Washington is something
aus. Most of the towels are
ia ctured on purpose Ton another
la down contract with a New
ID firm and the supply Away
81 hand would fill a fair-sized
use. The treasury department
Ens seven thousand good linen
a each red ,b0rdered and with the
bic ~ S" in the center; and
of 1000 every day. The
departm 4nt proper uses an
Sc of $50 every day; the pension
DO day. Then there are the
ce department, tho great state,
pd navy departments, the Ii
the agricultural department,
IS ntlng bureau, the patent office,
81 eaus OF education, of labor, of
the census, the geological sur
d many others, soiling thous-
pom thousands Of towels every
me would think that the great
s Der would come from the dirt
ace the bureau of engravin g
8Etlng; but it is a singular fact
~ much smaller number Of ex-
~ tory" and always immacu-
&rkS OF the state, war and navy
|sfnenttS squan1er the most
The lavatorres of the capitol
no small percentage OF the
n Tor besides its several hun
n ployes many of the wells
~ congressman prefer their
|0ns I'm the altogether," as Trll-
say-in the splendidly an.
FL marble bath rooms provided
le samuel, All these mountains
p linen, though gwen out by
R 10 certain we'll known laun.
sa VINO nave grown nCh on what
NVery small price (35 cent ner
adred townIs( are mostly reno
oy the good, old fashioned mptb
"a'htuo and elboW-grease| hv
women OF the district, in thpir
MONIES at much lesss nrica
Vie contractor raoo;yo.
Nh work. '0' Vhe
not generally known but
sae,esS a TACT, that the govern
~ IA 'G ip'4 mouse in the executive
w. instead ;S5 of the president an6
H. I'm me domestic economy of
Ce mouse DOWN to the smaIIo ~ :
4 >, regulated by law, and twentv
mi, =, rs = servants retained by no.
4 'G.' The head -servant-the
lis u.s. heavily bonded Officer ie
\ ero y Isl 800 a year,, is paId hy
sIccn 1;i5 aC; and be enjoys a Dat.
b. ''Ssiioerably greater than the
Splen pi',hselt; The steward not
"a bIa hes the household stores
hen a ne n and bed-room-Ijnen, dish.
kh fen s Utensils, etc.-bnt actu u1IT,
l. from t THUS, whose salaries,
are nai (an'rrty to sixty dollars =
1 The onIv t ,gE, by the govern
s.en2 4 .s the control Of Tbe
an and f "aro are the chef,
l Itle Is merely agar ns sbe5 pf4j n
linlstrarioTo % lar as its domes-
5indl%a . aIIau Is concerned, who |
IS, out need NOT 55a5 esI WnaC