Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-07
REPORT OF SENATE SECRETARY
SHOW QUEER EXPENDITURES
Cologne Snuff Hair Tonic, Oil of RoSe and HelotOpe Ex
tract Have All Been Drawn Upon to Enhance the SaIu-
brOuS Sensational Presence.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Purchases
made in the course of a year for the
use of the senator's, directly and in
directly, make up a list almost in
finite in its variety.
They are set forth in detail in the
annual report of the secretary of
the senate and in strict accordance
with the law that requires the pub
lication of the record of every ex-
penditure, he allows no item to es-
cape. There are articles for busi-
ness and for comfort, for the medi-
cine chest and for the toilet.
Regard for manly charms still en-
dures in the senate, tempestuous
questions of state to the contrary
not withstanding. In the secretary's
report, just issued, it appears that
four dozen bottles of popular grades
of cologne and a gallon of another
brand of cologne were part of the
stores laid in last year, fragrant
reminder of olden times when gall
liant beauX were wont to meander
about in an invisible zone of incense
laden atmosphere. Thus romance
lives on and on and anybody not
liking cologne can lump it.
Another reminder of the good old
days is the habit of taking snuff. 1t
still lives, and a single invoice OF
two pounds of Copenhagen snuff in
dicates that even in the council
house of the nation there exists 4
demand for this solace of old age.
Failing hair, too, appears to be an
issue. There is an item of one dozen
bottles of a celebrated brand of hair
tonic, $27.75, and two bottles of an
other brand, S1.5O, not quite so ceI-
ebrated. A little further along are
other items reminding the reader OF
the age of perfume. A dram of oil
of rose at 81, three ounces of rose
extract, at $1.26 and three ounces
of heliOtrope extract, also at $1.26,
have all been drawn upon to en-
hance the salubrious senatorial pres
ence
Ills come to senator's as to COM
mon mortals and natural enough it
is that the chamber be fortified
against the dread invasion of germs
and bacilli. Stovaine has not been
adopted, but the senate batteries
bristle with three bottles of bromo
seltzer, three bottles of bromo caf-
feine three bottles of Abbey's salts,
one dozen bottles each of pepsin tab
lets, Jamaica ginger, vaseline, lister
inc (large size); one dozen pack
ages of laxative bromo-quinine, one
dozen packages of court plaster, one
dozen seidlitz powders, one pound
soda mint tablets, 200 rhinitis tab
lets, 500 lithia tablets, one pound
of bicarbonate soda tablets, six
ounces of aromatic spirits of ammo
MIA, one case of Hunyadi water, one
quart of olive oil, two quarts of am
monia, and so on through a long
list.
Two kips of chamois skins at
$4S.20, two ounces of ounce seed
and six ounces of bergamot were al
so among the things laid in stock.
Soap? Yes, there was a half gross
of imported French soap, perfumed,
$4.65. Four gross of another fancy
soap cost $12.4O and there was
lot of three other less expensive
brands.
In the supplies of last year the
senate bought one bottle each Of
mustang liniment, gargling oil and
North Carolina tar. 1t took in
large amounts of timothy hay. oats,
meal and bran. The old joke about
the senator's breakfast food is out
lawed by the statute of limitations
however. The cereals and such are
not for the senators but for the
senate stables. Other entries show
the purchase of one gallon of Meats |
foot oil, 81; one quart of foot dress
ing, rs cents, two name brushes, 75 |
cents, and three pairs of iron hold
back hoops, 81.
Some of the magical maneuvers in |
the senate may possibly be explain
ed by the fact that so gallons of |
Alladin oil were bought for senator
ial use. Some other liquids were.
four gallons of alcohol, 25 barrels |
of strained West Virginia oil, one |
barrel formaldine, and five gallons
of witch hazel.
In the first two months of 1909 !
the senators consumed 159 cases of |
apollinaris water, valued at $1,39S |
and SO cases of lithia water valued |
at $422. Quinine pills were bought
by the thousand and frequently.
SeVenty-tive pages of the report |