The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-03-18
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BY Senators and Representatives Who
Are Involved in Scandal.
MONEY VALUE OF INFLUENCE.
Another Chapter in Last Summer.
PostofIice Investigation. DIFF
81 fercnt. Forms OF Crooked
Business LetOut.

|. fSrcnt Forms OF Crooked
Business Let Out.
Another chapter in the postofIce
investigation Of last summer was re-
yealed Thursday when Chairman
Qverstreet Of the house com rnittce on
postotfices and post roads lad bcfo. re
tue house Of representatives a closely
| printed document OF 218 pages re-
counting the instances on file in the
poStotfice department in wi ch mela-
bers OF the senate and house Of repre-.
sentativeS have used their .''iltluenccr
with officials OF the poStoni, depart
ment, with more or less Succ SIS, to Sc
cure increases in tie salaries of post
masters, additional clerk hira and al.
yantageous lenses for buildings for
poStoffice purposes.
-s1'he report was made by the unani-
NOUS vote Of the members of Mr..
oVefstreet'i committee, in rcspon;e
TO u resolution calling for the inf0rm;,-
tion, introduced by Representative
Hay of Virginia. AS the information u
accompanies the report, the commij. J.
eesrecommended that the resolution
lay on the table. Three cases are Sc f.
forth In which members of conpre s
own buildings which are leased to tt
government for poStoi1ice purpose ).
me members involved are j. W.
Wadsworth Of New York; j. D. Bow.
efs5Uck, Of Kansas, and Geo. L. I,;llcy
OF Connecticut.
The history Of 16l cases is given in
thereport wherein members of cor
gress figure in getting authoritarian
ior clerk hire in excess Of the amount
tnesolhce in question was entitled to.
Many or these increases were onlv
temporary, and have been discontin-
ued.sA
Among those whose Influence"
seemed good with the postonice de-
parment are Senator Clay and Rep
reSeGtative GriggS of Georgia.; Scna-
tor Pltchard secured an increase for
clerk hire of Greenville, N. c., from
SIOsto $3.50 per annum, which on Dec.
!, l9D3, was discontinued altogether.
lie ,atso secured an increase from $40
TO $50 for Wake Forest, n. c., which
was reduced to the former amount
Oct.s1 1903.
Senator McLaurin appears for an
increase [lt;rel In South Carolina. Repre-
sentattYes Brownlow and Gibson Sc
cured Several increases in Tennessee
whicsSha been reduced since. Six
oul 9S1lscases in Virginia are down
TO- edit of Representative Swan
tsaf ark Agnew's name also.
r. ,<,enerb - I =, -. -.
SIh e accounts OF III instances
In the report where members of con-
gress have made recommendations in
connection with leases of buildings for
poStoiiice purpose
Senator Overman is the owner Of
the building in which the postoliice at
Salisbury, n. g., is located. The re-
port says that on taking his seat as a
United States senator he offered to
surrender the lease, but the offer was
declined by the government, it being
held that the lease was not invalidat-
c1 by his elec lion as senator.
Tie report tiles in the pustonce de-
partment indicate that the Office at
Tuskagee, Ala. is owned by the Rep
resentative Thompson Of Alabama.
The report gives the correspondence
between Beavers and Representative
thompson at his successful efforts to
have the REM allowance increased
from S24O to $500 annually.
The following names of senators
and members appear in the report as
having made representations to the
postollice department concerning the
leases or premises for poStOiliccS and
Tor allowances for rent, fuel and light.
Alabama Representatives Banl-
head and Clayton, Senator p titus.
Connectic 1T Representa- cs Her
ry Hill and Lilly.
Georgia preventative riggs.
Illinois representatives G.. W.
Smith, Marsh, Graf, Mann, Senator
Cullom, ex-senator Mason, Speaker
Cannon.
Indiana prescntativcs Watson
liemenway, Cromer, Oversize It, Brick
and G. B. LindiS.
lowa-RepreSentatives Connor, Hep
burn, Hull, Cousins, Thomas, Hat
CHEN and Senator Dollivcr.
Kansas Representatives Calde.-
head, Curtis and Bowersack.
louisiana Representatives Bref
>zeale, Ransdell and Senator McEner,.
Maine-Re Representatives Burieiga
and Allen.
Maryland Representatives Jackson
and Pearrie.
Massachu ietts Repre- sentative s
Lowering al d Greene.
Michigan representatives Caro-
ner, Smith, Fordney, Hamilton,
Bishop, VIM. a. Smith and Darragl
Minnesot;. - Representatives NJ
Cleary and rawney.
Nebraska Representative Burke1 t
New Jersey Representative Howell
and Gardner.
New York Representatives Alex
andcr, Brceland, Ketcham, Sherman,
Wadsworth, Payne and Littauer.
North Carolina Senator Overman.
North Dakota - Repre- Sentative
Spalding.
Ohio Representatives Van Voor-
his, Skiles and Grosyenor.
Pennsylvania - Rcpres ntatIvos
Wagner, Bates, Evans, Achcson, Sib.
ley, DaiZell and Butler.
South Carolina Rep rescntatives
Findlcy.
South Dakota -Repres entative
Burke.
Tennessee Representatives Brown
low.
Texas s. Representative Burleson.
Vermont - Representatives Foster
and Haskins.