The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-21
SENATOR'S FOBLES Barred
SOME rOOk rHE HOME PAPERS.
some TOOK MASSAGE.
Rental os Three sewing Machines one sf
the Items Paid Fer Out ss Pubaio
Purse-The 'Outloek" " a. Taken. but
Mr. Bryan's "Commoncr" was Not.

WI. bSynns dommo0rr "AS WV
WARRINGTON. Dec :O-The annual re-
port OF Charles y Bennett, Secretary OF
the senate. was made public to-day
This report shows that the needs OF
Senators are varied. II discloses their
literary tastes and contains evidences OF
headaches, corns. bunions and other
Affections.
That ncle sam IL sub-crioer 10
La Foilshe's Magazine is shown by an
expenditure for years subscription 70
that periodical for the special benefit OF
the Hon William Joel Stone of Missouri
Uncle sam was. however. entirely i'm
partial in the matter of subscriptions Tor
papers and magazines. m ia shown by
a subscription To the Wal Strsst Journal
for senator La Toilette himself. The
Outlook also was subscribed and paid Tor
by the United States Government. but
there u no record that any senator read
William Jennings Bryan's Com'nonsr at
public expense.
Senator Clarenc. ID. Clark OF Wyoming.
chairman of the senate Judiciary Com
mittee has given some attention To pre-
vailing fashions This at least Ii indi-
Gated by the fact that he ordered Secre-
tary Bennett to have the Deiinsdfor sent
TO him for a year. TO be paid fc- cut CT
the contingent fund Many Senators read
their home newspapers at public expense
and not q few Of them ask ed Uncle Sam
to provide the Washington daily and
Sunday newspapers.
Senator Piles Of Washington asked the
Government TO pay for the Bellingham
Herald. the Bellingham RersiIie and the
Everett Herald. giving the news from back
home
Some Of the Senators were active IN
remembering the folks at home with
photographs. indicated by several items
for photograph mailing. There are
sums for penk nives and ladies scissors.
Another item Is for the rental OF three
sewing machines.
The taxicab company drew heavily
on IN" contingent fund for taking sena-
tors home from eve ming sessions. Another
expenditure for raxicabs was for taking
Senators HON. from the Senate on las,
day ~ tn. session
\ local druggist was paid for the fol-
lowing supplies Ounce seed. cologne
silk hat brushes. hromo settler. cafYein.
p@psIn tablets. horehound drops. gum
camphor and court plaster There were
expenditures for hair tonic. massage
cream and other accessories Of the Senate
barber shop
Senator bick Of Ohio seems tn have been
able To put as good a cr,mp in the CON
TIM gent fund az any other senator. The
history ~ the tariff schedules probably
would be found ~ the kilograms that
passed between him and his constituents
in industrial cities If Ohio during the
period when the Payne ldriCh Law was
being considered in the senate
tn" Senator's Geographic activity be
gan on ~ patric.i's day He sent nearly
n hundred messages that day As the
tarif legislation progressed he warmed
to his task until on .iuly- ~, 1899. he ex-
Ceedsd "A hundred messages Page upon
page of the S"Crefarv'- report records the
Ohio Senator'S industry IN tariff matters =
Tn" senate, u appears. no; only sub
scrih.d for the Duiiook hut paid $40 for
Il bust of the Contributing Editor