The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-20

can give out information to members
of congress or anybody else has work
ed much annoyance to members of
congress and has given something
that the Democrats can attack with a
reasonable certainty of getting good
results. The people like to know just
how their government is run. When
their congressman cannot find out for
them they are justified in concluding
that the business is not handled in the
best manner possible"
S. K. Harrison, representing retail
grocers and meat dealers of Balti-
more, had the termerity to express
the belief before the senate price
Investigating" committee that the
tariff had something to do with in
creased prices. He said his firm had
been forcedCto quit handling a cheap
er grade of green tea because of the
tariff. Mr.. Smoot, of Utah, one of the
investigators" became sorely peevad
at this slur on the Payne-Aldrich
bill. 1.-THE tariff had nothing to do
with it." declared Senator Smoot, in
rebuking the witness. at was the
pure food law" Why waste time talk
ing any further evidence?
Tom P. Gore, Of Oklahoma, for
president; Chamberlain, of Oregon,
for vice-president" This ticket, print
ed in bold, black type, appears on the
first page of a weekly newspaper OF
Kansas in every edition.
May Get Advance.
Are Uncle Sans railway mail clerks
at last to receive an expense allow
ance of rs cents a day in cases where
they have been out on the road IL
hours and must eat and sleep away
from home? q Z
Congress will see about It, A para
graph providing for the meager a4iew-
ance for the underpaid clerks has been
| inserted in the postoffice appropriation
bill, which has passed the house. If
the paragraph is not stricken out in
the senate, or in conference, thearail-
way mail clerks, or some Of them, at
least, will be allowed Is cents a..day
| to partially cover extra expenses ne
cessitated by the requirements of the
! service
| If the position of a railway mail
clerk was a political one there would
| be no doubt about the retention of the
paragraph referred to. Congress has
millions to spend for the conservation
! of the Republican machine; it creates
new positions for Republican poll
| ticians by the thousand, and increases
! the salaries of Republican officeholders
with lavish hand But as concerning
/ railway mail clerks, and non-political
employees of like efficiency, congress
! policy is one of the most rigid re-
| trenchment. .-
| If. instead of being railway mail
clerks, the men who handle letters on
! the trains were employed about the
capitol building here in Washington,
! they would not only receive fancy sal
aries, but an extra months pay each
year as bonus for being a good Re-
! publican. The last distribution of
bonus from the public treasury was
made through house resolution NO.
/ 426, a copy of which anyone may Sc
cure by writing to the house document
room, Washington, D. G. Ut provided
| for a gift of 81, 800 to the clerk of the
/ house. which is bonus in addition to
/ his regular salary of $4,000. The ser
geant-at-arms, whose salary is also
$4,000. was likewise made present Of
! 800. The doorkeeper's prize amount
ed to $500. The list Of benefactors of
! house resolution No. 426 covers six
pages. There would probably be no
such special legislation as house reso
luton No 426 should Senator Aldrich
set out to save the people the $780,
O0O,0 900 which he declares is being
wasted annually under present condl-
tions.
The United States railway mail
service represents the highest indus
trial development in the world de,
clared Rep. Victor Murdoch of Kansas
! in a speech in which he warned con,
gress not to attempt to strike out the
paragraph allowing the railway mail
clerks expenses to the amount of Is
cents a day.
! The whole service in the United
States has attained an average of 1885,
per cent Each man in the railway
mail service is not only workman OF
skill, but he is also a student. He is
regularly nut through a most rigorous
examination. He must not only know
the stations in the states. the 10000
postoffices in the United States, but
! he must keep himself constantly in
/ formed as to all the changes of SEIZED
ules of trains. There are men run
ming between Syracuse and Cleveland
! who know whether to throw a letter
directed to a town in central Califor
| mia north or south to obtain for it the
/ quickest dispatch across the country.
/ There are men running from New
! York to Washington On the railway
! postal cars who know more about the
/ postoffices of North and South Caro-
4 lima than do the members of this
house who hail from those states
Il This is the finest service in the world
Other branches of the postal service
halt at some time in the day. This
u service goes On continuously. There