The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-01
TELEGRAM TO ]. q,
PAID FOR BY & S,
IL Cost 80 csats, and Ma.
Sent by Senator Aldrs h
May 2, 1902.
THE A Luxu RES
RsvsrIdss Sends Most Telegram AT.
tar Of Roses, Candy, Quinine TAB
lets and Hair Brushes for 8 I'D.
headed eenatora

Washington special: Just thirty
cents worth OF telegraphing. kr which
the government paid, took place be-
tween John d. Rockefeller. the Stand
during the last year. according to the
official report of the secretary of h
senate. It Is presumed the telegram
was on official business.
The entry IL under misc ellaneous
items.' In h Contingent account Of
the senate and is dated May 2. 1902:
"Aldrich. Washington. to Rockefeller.
New York. 80"
That's all. The list also shows hat
during the time Senator Foraker and
Boss" Cox. OF Cincinnati, were not on
speaking terms. supposedly, Senator
Foraker sent Mr.. Coz fourteen tele-
grams.
Senator Beveridge holds the record
for kilograms sent. From the record
1t would appear that every time Sen
ator Fairbanks sent a telegram to In
diana Senator Reveridge ruHhed to the
nearest telegraph office and sent three.
Mono on Allison.
Senators Platt and Depew either paid
for the bulk OF their messages or
"franked" them. All told these two
senators did not send mora than 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 260
tons Of best timothy hay for use Of
United States senate" 1t does not ex-
plain whether this has taken the place
Of breakfast foods or Ia for the use Of
the horses.
There is also an item of "one oak
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. $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.
Electricity In Barber shop.
The senators exceeded their usual
limit in luxuries. for they bought q
"Piffard apparatus for static electric
machine" for $40 to be used in the par
Der shop. Although not every senator
kas hair on his head, some five dozen
hair brushes were 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
were bought and l09 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 were altar of roses, oil OF
bergamot, glycerine. hair tonic, bay
rum. vaseline. dandrlff 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 We're purchased
and dispensed, together with some 5000
quinine tablets and the usual $4,000
worth OF mineral waters. Just as soon
as a man becomes a senatnS he culti-
Yates the mineral water habit, bathes
IN artificial salt water and steps out on
| velvet bath mats