The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-15
10 ]. D,
3 PAID FOR By U. S.
ii Cost 80 Gents, and Mas
Sent basenator AIdrich
May 2, 1902.
THE ENATE' LuxURfEs
Beveridse Sends Most Telearanas-At:.
tar Of Roses, Candy, Quinine ab
let's and Hair Brushes for AID
headed Senators.

Washingto special: Just thirty
cents, worth Of telegraphing, for which
the government paid, took place PC
tween John D.lRockefeiler, The stand
ard Oil magnate, and Senate Aidrieh
during the last year, according to#ehs
official report of the secretary OF Ihe3
senate. 1t is presumed the telegram
was on official business.
The entry is under miscellaneous
items" in the Contingent aecoun ~
the senate, and is dated May 2,slyo1.
"Aldrich, Washington, to Rockefeliers
New York, 80" 40.
That, all. The list also shows that
during the time Senator Foraker and
Boss Cox, of Cincinnati, We're not on
speaking terms, supposedly, Senator
Foraker sent Mr.. Cox fourteen tele-
grams.
Senator Beveridge holds the record
for kilograms sen From the record
it would appear THAI every time Sen
ator Fairbanks sent aEtelegram to In
diana Senator Beveridge rushed to the
nearest telegraph office and sent three.
None on Allison.
Senators Platt and Depew either paid
for the bulk of their messages
..franked" them. All told these two
senators did not send more than TWEEN
ty kilograms chargeahle to the contin-
gent fund. Senator Hanna and Senator
EAllISOIl. RI hllONllM II 0NpT ~
PUSSY Foot left no te~legraphic trail
Telegraphing is not the only luxury
of a senator, for the report tells Of $50
tons of apest timothy hay for use OF
United States senate" 1t does mo- ex-
plain whether this has taken fireplace
of breakfast foods Or is for the use of
the horses. &
There is also an item Of tone "a
refrigerator and pan for committee on
Woman's S~ufrrage.2y Evidently some
senator In the ~priyacy#of his commit
tee room is doing light housekeeping,
for there appears for repairing three
electric stoves, s4.35." 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
4 Journal furnished G. ID. Clark of Wyo-s
ming.
Electricity in Barber Shop.
The nato exceeded@t 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
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 100 pounds of sponges
Y which does not include n 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, dandruff cures, a gallon
of cologne, fourteen different kinds OF
soap and some feather busters.
AS a special reward to senator's who
behaved themselves twenty-five pounds
of ~horehound candy were purchased
and dispensed, together with some 5000
quinine tablets ana the usual $4,000
worth Of mineral waters. Just as soon
as a ma becomes a senator he cult
YATES the mineral water habit, bathes
in artificial salt water and steps outson
velvet bath mats.