The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-01-01
TELEGRAM TO ]. D.
PAID FOR BY U. 5.
i Cost 80 Gents, and Was
Sent by Senator Aidrich
May 2, 1902.
THE A LuxuRIEs
Beveridee Send. Most TeIegrams-At.
tar Of Roses, Candy, ouinine Tab
Iets and Hair Brushes for Bald.
headed Senators.

Washington special: lust thirty
cents worth Of telegraphing, for which
the government paid, took place be-
tween, John d. Rockefeller, the Stand
ard OIL magnate, and Senator Aldrich
during the last year, according to the
official report Of the secretary Of the
senate. It is presumed the telegram
was on official business.
The entry Is under miscellaneous
items" in the Contingent account OF
the senate" and Is dated May 2, 1902:
"Aldrtch, Washington, to Rockefeller.
New York, 80"
That's all. The list also shows that
BOSS" Cox, of Cincinnati, were not on
speaking terms, supposedly, Senator
Foraker sent Mr.. Cox fourteen tele-
grams. E4
Senator Beverldge holds the record
for kilograms sent. From the record
1t would appear that every time SEN
ator Fairbanks sent q telegram to In
diana Senator Beveridge rushed to the
nearest telegraph office and sent three.
None on Allison.
Senators Plat and Depew either paid
for the bulk Of their messages or
'franked" them. All told these two
senators did not send more h TWEEN
ty kilograms chargeable to the contin-
gent fund. Senator Hanna and Senator
Allison, known to his colleagues as
Pussy Foot" left no Geographic trail.
Telegraphing is not the only luxury
| of a senator, for the report tells Of go
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 one oak
refrigerator and pan for committee on
Woman's Suffrage" Evidently some
senator in the privacy Of his commit
tee room is doing light housekeeping.
for there appears for repairing three
electric stoves, s4.s5." 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.
Electricity in Barber Shop.
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 barr
Der shop. Although not every senator
has hair on his head, some five dozen
hair brushes We're bought and paid for
out Of the contingent fund OF the
senate, not to count nine dozen combs.
The moths must be pretty bad in the
senate, for forty pounds of camphor
We're bought and 100 pounds of sponges
which does. not include one dozen bath
sponges at $40 a dozen.
Some of the other things bought for
the senators to make them look and
smell nice We're altar of roses, oil Of
bergamot, glycerine, hair tonic, bay
rum, vaseline, 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
n dispensed, together with some 5000
quinine tablets and the usual 5000
worth Of mineral waters. Just as soon
as a man becomes a senator he cult
Yates the mineral water habit, bathes
In artificial salt water and steps out on
velvet bath mats.