Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-18
SENATORIAL EXPENSES.
Luxuries Bought For Members
 of the Upper House.
DANDY AND QUM1NE IN THE LIST

Telegraph Message to John ID. Rock
 efeller Paid For by the Govern
 ment-It Cost Thirty Cents and Was
 sent by Senator Aldrich - Hair
 brushes and Scents Among tho
 Items Bought Last Year.
 Just 30 cents worth of telegraphing, for which the government paid, took place between John D. 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 sem ate. It is presumed the telegram was on official business, says Washington dispatch to the New York World.
 The entry is under miscellaneous items," in the contingent account of tbe sena.e," and is dated May 2, 1902.
 "Aldrich, Washington, to Rockefeller, New York, 30.''
 That's all. The list also shows that Boss Cox of Cincinnati were not on speaking terms, supposedly. Senator Foraker sent MT. Cox fourteen tele- grams.
 Senator Beveridge holds the record for telegrams sent. From the record 1t would appear that every time Senator Fairbanks sent telegram to Indiana Senator Beveridge rushed tS the near est telegraph office and sent three.
 Senators Platt and Depew either paid for the bulk of their messages or "franked' them. All told, these two senators did not send more than twen- ty telegrams chargeable to the con- tfngent fund. Senator Hanna and Sen ator Allison, known to his colleagues as Pussy Foot" left no telegraphic trail
 Telegraphing Is not the only luxury of senator, for the report tells of 260 tons of "best timothy hay for use of United States senate" It 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 "one 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 flor repairing three cleo tric stoves, $4.35." The record does not show in what committee rooms the stoves are, but there is an entry for a years subscription to the Ladies' Home Journal furnished c. D. Clark of Wyo- ming.
 The senators exceeded their usual limit in luxuries, for they bought a ''Piffard 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 109 pounds of sponges, which does not include one dozen bath sponges at SEQ a dozen.
 Some of the other things bought for the senators to make them look and smell nice were altar of roses, oil of bergamot, glycerin, hair tonic, bay rum, vaseline, dandruff cures, gallon of cologne, fourteen different kinds of soap and some feather dusters. As 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 $6,O0o worth of mineral waters. Just as soon as man becomes senator he cultivates the mineral water habit, bathes in artificial salt water and steps out on velvet bath mats.