The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-19
SENATORIAL EXPENSES.
Luxuries Bought For Members
Of the Upper House.
CANDY AND QUIEIEE IN THE LIST

Telegraph Message TO John d. Rock
efeIIer Paid For by the Govern
ment-Is Cost Thirty Cents and Was
sent by senator AIdrich : Hair
brushes and scents Among the
Items Bought Last Year.
Just 30 cents worth Of telegraphing,
for which the government paid, took
place between John ID. Rockefeller, the
Standard Oil magnate. and Senator
Nelson W Aldrich of Rhode Island dur
ing the last year, according TO the off,
cial report Of the secretary OF the sen
ate. 1t is presumed the telegram was
on official business, says a Washington
dispatch to the New York World.
The entry is under miscellaneous
items,n in the Contingent account Of
the senate and is dated May 2. 1902.
"Aldrich. Washington, to Rockefeller.
New York. 80"
That's all The list also shows that
during the time Senator Foraker and
Boss Cox of Cincinnati were not on
speaking terms, supposedly. Senator
Foraker sent Mr.. Cox fourteen tele-
grams
Senator Beveridge holds the record
for kilograms sent. From the record it
would appear that every time Senator
Fairbanks sent a telegram to Indiana
Senator Beveridge rushed TO the near
est telegraph office and sent three
Senators Plat and Depew either paid
for the bulk Of their messages or
"franked'' them. All told, these two
senators did not send more than TWEEN
ty kilograms chargeable TO the con
tingent fund. Senator Hanna and Sen
ator Allison, known to his colleagues
as Pussy Foot" left no teiegraphic
trail
Telegraphing is not the only luxury
OF a senator, for the report tells Of 260
tons Of 'best timothy hay for use Of
United States senate" 1t does not ex-
plain whether this has taken the place
OF breakfast foods or is for the use Of
the horses.
There is also an item Of zone oak
refrigerator and pan for committee on
woman suffrage" Evidently some SEN
ator In the privacy of his committee
room is doing light housekeeping, for
there appears "for repairing three cleo
trio stoves, $435." The record does
not show in what committee rooms the
stoves are, but there is an entry for
years subscription to the Ladies' Home
Journal furnished c. d. Clark of Wyo-
ming
The senators exceeded their usual
limit in luxurles. for they bought
''Pihard apparatus for static electric
machine" for $40 TO be used in the bar
Der shop. Although not every senator
has hair on his head, some five dozen
hairbrushes were bought and paid for
out Of the contingent fund of the sen
ate, not to count nine dozen combs.
The moths must be pretty bad in the
senate, for forty pounds Of camphor
were bought and 100 pounds of sponges,
which does not include one dozen bath
sponges at $50 dozen.
Some Of the other things bought for
Ahe studtuAS ~ Aiuhc theAh tVoh anu
smell nice were altar of roses. oil Of
bergamot, glycerin. hair tonic, bay rum,
vaseIine dandruff cures, a gallon of
cologne, fourteen different kinds Of
soap and some feather busters.
AS a special reward to senators who
behaved themselves twenty-five pounds
of horehound candy were purchased
and dispensed. together with some
5000 quinine tablets and the usual
$4,000 worth Of mineral waters. Just
as soon as a man becomes a senator he
cultivates the mineral water habit,
battles IN artificial salt water and steps
out ON velvet bath mats.