Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-19
NEW MEMBERS
 IN THE CAPITAL
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 in the shadow of the capitol dome. The price of convenient accomoda- tions in a second rate hotel for a week here will keep the average American from the country for we'll nigh half year, while if thea new m mber puts up for any considerable time at one of the first class hotels, he is lucky if he does not have to mortsage his farm back home to pay the bill, unless he happens to be one of the millionaire representatives, and in that event he generally estab- fishes himself in some historic old home, rented to him for the congress sional season for three times it's worth. and there entertains society. From the hotel life of a congressman there are only two alternatives. He must either seek an ordinary board ing house, where he would be asham- ed to entertain his friends or consti- tuents, or else he must rent for three, four or five months, while he expects to stay here, a furnished fiat in one of the scores of big apartment houses. and pay for it for an entire year
 Go to Family Hotels.
 The most of the members after looking about and finding that they can do no better generally resign themselves to the family hotel or take an apartment The boarding touses are populated with the cler- ical force. 4 secretary or a clerk to a member may live at a boarding house. but it is no longer the prop CT thing for a member to do. Yea s ago the boarding houses used to fat ten of the members themselves, but they no longer get the pick of the congressional trade. There have been instances where members disposed to be very economical have lived in cheap boarding houses or their mile age, clerk hire and allowance for stationary, and saved their salaries. The members wife officiated as his secretary. and this saving has more than paid the board bill. Instances of this kind, however. are rare now adays, and the average number lives i;retty close to his income as a con gressman. while he is attending the sessions
 "Journalist' Fakes.
 Che of the troubles of the newcom- CT is in shakin off a certain class Of alleged journalists who present him with a plan to make him famous ! These writers have no standing what. ever with the press gallery and the regular corps of Washington cores pondents They maintain two or three weekly publications, of abso- lutely no value and no circulation, and he is mulc.ed to the tune of a hun. dred, two hundred. or perhaps five hundred dollars according to his abil. | ity to pay. He receives a very laud | atory ''write-up" in these worthless | sheets, his picture is printed in the | paper, and he is furnished with a ! certain number of copies to send back home to his aimiring constitu ' ents. No one else ever sees the ar | ticle, and 1t is not until after he has | been bled that the member wakes uT to the fact that he has been victim ized. The Washington correspondents have for many years en eavored tC | eradicate this evil, and have gone | to much trouble to warn incohhins members against the hold up, but al ways a certain number fall for the game. These blackmail writers have been busy plying their trade upor the new members of the present con ! gress. Because there is such an us ually large number of new corners they have found rich pickings al ready.
 Gets a oecretary.
 Another trouble which the new congressman has in selecting a sec | retary. Some of them bring on ; young man or a young woman iron hone. The salary Of SIPS a montl looks big to them, especially if the, hail from a small town or village
 but they soon find that it does not g' far in Washington. But whethe he brings on a home product or not the average member is beseiged witl scores of applicants from professiona | secretaries. These are men am
 women who have served in that eapi city for years. many of them makinl a good livihood by attending to tn
 correspondence anG eepartmenta
 work of three or four members. The
 know ell the ropes, and many O
 them are as skillful in attending t
 the wants of constituents as th
 average member Of rongress. Ther
 s a whole lot of difficulty, howevei
 in selecting a good one, and~the men
 Der often finds that he Is severel i handicapped by an inefficient seer
 tary.
 Then there are always list of al
 plicants for jobs in the goyeTnmen service which the member finds
 impossible to accomodate. but this