The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-12-29
LIKES LUXURIES.
Senate Spent More Than ST.
600 900 on Itself Last Year.
Washington Cor, 10Th, Baltimore Sun.

learned today officially the Co.'S
of maintaining itself in the past
fiscal year.
Its price as an institution to
the American people was ~, Ol2,-
374.52 for salaries, mileage and
incidental expenses. This does !
not include the expense Of print
ing and of the Congressional Re-
cord, nor the outlay for items
under otherssappropriations.
About one-third of the total
was on account of salaries and
mileage, The second third went
in the shape of pay for officers.
clerks and messengers. The
tidy little sum of S137, 211.22 was
voted right out of the Treasury
as one months extra pay to
these same officers and clerks,
and the rest went for contingent
expenses, the cost of the Vice
Presidents automobile, news
papers for Senators from their
home towns and the price Of
kilograms sent to all parts of the
country by Senators at the ex-
pense of the Government, the
use of the telegraph frank hay
ing been abolished toward the
end of last session.
Besides his salary of So, 900,
which was paid at the rate of
$1,000 a month, Vice-President
Sherman was allowed $1,000 for
his automobile from August 9,
1909, to June 80. 1910. The &C.
tual cost of the Vice-President's
limousine was 81, 400. Besides
there were bought for him a
touring body for the car at $3.50,
a mohair top at $40, a wind
shield for $40, and other items
of initial expenditures bringing
the aggregate outlay for the
limousine up to S., 254. 80.
A large part of the eXpendi
ture was for kilograms sent from
the capital by Senators and their
secretaries. There are 1876 pages
in the report, printed in fine
type, and more than half Of the
document is taken up with thf
itemized statement Of Senatorial
telegraph expense accounts. a
telegram from Senator Lodge t.
President Taft at Atlanta thu
Government paid for. On ont
from Senator Hepburn, in Wash
ington. to Wiley, Washington
D. c." the Government paid s.
cents. The names of the Sena
tors sending the kilograms, a
we'll as the recipients of thei
dispatches, are set forth in
fashion that sent confusion int
some of the occupants Of tn
cloakrooms this afternoon.
A detailed statement of tn
cost of the Ballinger-Pincho
Select Committee so far as tn
Senate was concerned, is incluC
ed. The sum Of $4,000 wa
drawn for this investigation an
the cost of it to the Senate We
Sl3, S44 II. F. M. Kerby, tn
young man who was dismisse
from the Interior Departme1
for disclosing the existence {
the now famous "Lawler Mem
randum," was paid S. for his a
tendance as a witness one de
before the committee. Hem
K. Love, who was brought fro
Fairbanks, Alaska, to testify f
CLAWS and Pinchot, cost the i
vestigation S53l. 40. His trave
ing outlay from Fair ba n
amounted to $3.50. 10, and he w
allowed S201 for 67 days expen
en- route at S. day. There a
a number of other witnesses w
cost the Government more tn;
$500 each.
Exactly III lockers were
stalled year ago today in t
Senate. They have ventilat
doors, bronze umbrella pans al
are of mahogany. with whit
wood backs. They cost t
Senate $3.50. At the same til
t'eight mahogany easy chair
were bought for the cloakrool
at SO apiece, totalling So
There are also II mahogany ar
chairs for the cloakrooms VIII
cost $32 each, or 1884 for the
Two double mirrors at SIPS ca
were bought for the cloakroor
total $3.50.
For their restaurant the SCI
tors bought three gold-fra
mirrors at $64 each. Then tn
are dozens Of velour sofa
lows" bought for the rooms
Senators in the new office bui
ing. These cost $3.50 a pillt
4 carpet rug for the Sen
Committee on Military Alta
made and laid to order, cost
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