The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-30

| the expenditure also includes towel
service for the committee rooms aud
the clerks Office Of the senate The
senate's towels are washed and ironed
at the rate of 90 cents Z dozen. and the
work last winter was divided between
| three persons, two of them c0lOred
washer women, who managed to make
anywhere from $50 to 1921 per month
by their labor, and the third. man,
who takes out lot of towels under
| contract at the above rate.
The accounts OF the senate barber
shop, which is also to some extent the
senate pharmacy, is rather amusing.
| For instance, on November the senate
purchased 1000 two-grain quinine pills,
+, 1000 three-grain quinine pills, one
| drahm altar of roses, one quart cas-
! tor oil, one gallon dandruff cure. one
horehoUnd drops, six bottles cascarets,
case Red Raven Splits, five pounds
and full line of drugs and soaps and
! perfumes, etc. The senate appears to
be Well provided with emergency rem
1
| taken suddenly i'll and indeed pro-
vision is made even for swelied heads
as shown by a liberal stock of bronco
settler. which is laid in at the begin
ming of the session.
| The stationery account Of the senate
| is likewise amusing, for outside the
Of
nett reports the purchase OF wrist bags
| manicure sets chatelain bags, card
| cases, and numerous articles of this
sort, which would create a laugh if
found on the person OF a United States
| senator.
| The expenditures of the senate con-
| tngent fund are all Legitimate of
| course, but to a person unacquainted
with the senate ways it would seem
from reading the secretarys report
that a great deal of the public money
| had been wasted.
| The secretary of the interior found
$4,000, appropriated at the last ses-
| sion of congress to defray expenses of
| collecting and displaying the Alaska
| exhibit at the st. Louis exposition is
| inadequate, and that additional funds
| will be necessary. He has therefore
! prepared and will send to congress
| Immediately after it reasSembes in
| January, an emergency estimate for
/ $4,000 which, in his opinion, is need
| ed to complete the Alaska exhibit.
| Secretary Hitchcock looks to the del
egations from the Pacific coast states
to assist in securing this money, and
! is in hopes that it may be made avail
1 able promptly as the present funds
will be largely exhausted when the
i Alaska building has been paid for.
In view of the discovery of the sec,
rotary of the interior that he is un-
able under the existing law to erect,
new buildings at Puyallup Indian
school, the delegation from Washing
ton will be called upon at an early
ate to secure the passage of a special
act of congress, providing for the pur-
\ chase of such lands may be needed
II for these school buildings. During the
days when the Puyallup lands We're in
the Indian reservation there was no
trouble about erecting buildings. but
i since the lands have become the sole
property of the Indians, they are, in
the opinion of the department, private
l lands and therefore are beyond the
control of the department. 1t is speci-
II fically stated in the revised statutes
that the government shall not expend
it's moneys in erecting public build
II ings on private lands. In the face of
this law there is nothing for the inte-
rior department to do but to appeal to
congress, unless some higher legal au-
II thority shall devise a means whereby
the secretary will feel authorized in
erecting new buildings on private lands
at the Puyallup school.
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