The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-27
TO CORRECT
AM ABUSE ] J, /: J
| Fever Government Employees
Are E1creafter@to Ride II
Carriages.
.WAsHlNeToNlANs DELIGHTED u! |. [! !. '!|::!
They Think Street Cars Good
Enough for Undcrlings OF
the Departments.
80, dir 7cr,,lar Correspondent.)

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'frrom our Re gular Correspondent
lTAsH1NGTON. y. c., Jan. @.-Ine
ron .ofliceholder OF Washington Is de-
lighted with the prospect OF seeing 9
material decrease in the rumDar OF car car
ridges a the streets after the present
session. The habit which mployes m
tho various departments have OF usins
a carriage to travel only q rev ploek no
every. time they 80 outside the ONCE.
5tifact, has grown Into an ABUSE, WIFI Wiz,
has become so offensive that several
members OF Congress have expressed
the opinion that steps must be taken @
stop it. ID For, ID mind \. yo,i.s tho carriages
are not paid for by tho underlings who
,,se them. Uncle Samuel foots the oiils
Iuheneyer one Of these understrappers
on tho government pay roll steps into
his waiting carriage. and starts forth 20
splash mud on the ordinary man VINO
Is not blessed with q pull on those VINO
are at the head OF this long suffering
government tits said that many men ~,
employed In the departments at sal.
ary OF twelve hundred year have az
their disposal constantly carriages which
they use every time they have to run an
errand for the department. They DO not
call 1t running errands.
a LONG LINE. Z;
REPRESENTATIVE Lands. Of Indiana, a
Republican,, said last week that u tf's
carriages and autos used by D officials
OF tho government were arranged one
behind the other, the line would extend
from the Capitol to the White House.
Tho distance lis over a. mile.
Representative Hitchcock. OF Nebraska.
has introduced a resolution. which has
been favora bly, reported from the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, requesting the
Secretary OF tina Navy to IN form b the
House how many carriages. horses and
automobiles are maintained by the gov
eminent for the use Of the department,
stogcthe- with a 5statementS showing the
cost Of such. the date OF purchas Sc, from
what fund the payment was made. and
the amount OF wages paid to men acting
as coachmen. footmen and chauffeurs.
whether carried on the rolls as such. Or
IN some other classification; also the list
OF officials entitled to the use OF car
RACES and the date when such service
was iriaugura ted. That the Naval Com
mittee is in earnest in the matter OF
discovering all the facts is Indicated by
the fact that when the resolution was
reported 1t was very ma terially amended
so as to incSudc several points not coy-
cred BY Mr.. Hitchcock In the original
draft. II "a i Z u st3; & n 4
IN Commissioner West has sent out a cir
5cular3to the heads of,departmentssof the
District government. making similar IN
quiries regarding the use OF carriages SO
that there will also probab bly, be reforms
in that, quarter. NJ lslfs,
LIT may. be that the best spirit Is not
manifested In SO doing, but It is a fact
none the lass, that Washington people
generally will be delighted to see more
officials walking The Carriage habit"
on the part Of insignificant department
attaches has long been a. source Of dis
gust to the everyday citizen who visits
the capital OF the nation, and those who
live here without being in the employ
OF the governmental The street cars. are
quick enough, and In every way good
enough for members OF the Senate and
the House, and why not for men so far
down the scale Of official importance as
to be indiso.rnible from the Capitol?