The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23
SENATORIAL CORKSCREWS
Sympathy Wasted - Senators
Have no Difficulty in Getting
on the Outside of the Inside of
ANY Bottle.

on the Outside of the Inside of
Any Bottle.
| Charlotte Observer.
We find this in the Lumberton
Robesonian:
This is sad thing to record.
1t is painful. 1t is heartrending.
If you have tears, prepare to
shed them now" Gentle reader
Would you believe so cruel a
thing could happen? nine Sena-
tors of these United States have
not been provided with cork
screws! It's fact. In the an
nual report of the secretary of
the Senate stationery room ap-
pears this item: "Eighty-three
corkscrews, 500. &c." And there
are 92 Senators. There are
the cold, heartless figures to
speak for themselves. Amt it
awful. When those nine cork
screwless Senators want to open
5 their'n they've got to break off
Z the neck or gouge out the cork
t with a knife. It's a bloomin'
shame. Why, we rise to ask in
= the name of an outraged people,
Why were those nine Senators
not provided with corkscrews?
:, Why?
= The Robesonian, we think, is
shedding it's tears and dispensing
it's sympathy to no purpose. We
have no idea that the nine Sena-
.e tors whoever they may be-are
re corkscrewless. We feel sure that
'r were their Washington City
4 premises searched these imple-
d ments, seemingly so useful to a
Of large majority of the nations
at lawmakers, would be found
"a someWhereabouts. The fact that
r. they have not been provided and
to paid for by the government does
or not establish the fact that they
t W are not on hand and in place to
he be quickly found and brought in
in to requisition when needed.
OF We are under the impression
I ul that the sympathy Of The Robe
if senian for those nine Senators is
.ur entirely wasted. We feel sure
Tor The Robesonian may rest assured
Ill., that, whether or not the govern
ment has, atits expense. supplied
&, those nine Senators with the
best and most expensive grade
of bottle openers. those same
nine Senators experience nc
great difficulty in getting on the
outside of the inside of any bot
b tie when the notion strikes then
N so to do.
y 1t may be that, through the
negligence or the inadvertence Of
that government official whose
special duty it is to see that al
% Senators are provided, at gov
- eminent expense, with the lat
,ur est type of bottle openers, nine
1n- of the most august and dignifiec
ur- body of legislators in the worle
we have been overlooked by him il
bic his official duty; but that doe.
RI. not preclude the idea that thos.
nine distinguished men are being
al deprived of the consolation ant
md the inspiration which an ordinar,
to corkscrew might bring. Their
are cheap ones on the marke
and it would not break any ST.,
500-salaried man to have to blu.
one or two during his six-yea
~ term of office.
3 NotwithstandingThe Robson
g ian's jeremiad on this subjec
we feel sure that nearly tn
n whole SO Senators are equipped
-. with serviceable corkscrews
tn whether in any given case tn
same be furnished by the gov
- eminent or obtained at the per
sonal expense Of the Senator.
Well, sir, we're right glad t
" have the assurance of The Oh
v server that those nine Senator
whom the government failed t
provide with corkscrews have n
mo doubt provided themselves. w
-. can rest easy now. -RObeSOnlan
viii 0 w -
That the State Treasury ba
ICE ance at the end of the fiscal yeal
Ike, November 80. was S123, $50. 48
= the finding of the legislative e2
aiming committee, which ha
ore just completed the al exam
eet ination OF the Treasury. Of tn
J. balance s112,o11. was genera
Gus and so, 919 education fund. TT
less general fund balance brougl
.ore over from the previous year w;
S556. O2O. Receipts this year wei
hat S., 349.0S7 and disbursement
and So, 582. 1910. Education fur
- shows 81, 1892 balance from prey
ieSs Gus wear, receipts S72, 436, di
as {. bursements $68, 909. Is, balar
h;r SO, 919.