Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-02
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rying whether a quorum was pres ent at those meetings or not.
 "Hogalng" Office Space.
 The National Monetary eouDais- sion, which was organized to pro vi1ie herths for the most influential senators then in the senate, but now retired, might have gone on with its upholstered snap for few years more, but for a curious cir cunstance. When it was organized t possessed itself of long row cf the finest offices in the new marble nalace opnosite the senate wing nf the capitol, known as the senate or
 ice building. It occupies good rart of one corridor for general of ffoers, besides which tho individual naeu bers have choice rooms scatter ea throughout the building.
 Recently variOus new senators and some older ones have become frsrreents over the question of of- Tee room. They view with alarm the tendency to fiu un the tcst apart nents with the effects Of the ''H- B." Senators pensione5 on the com mission. while the now izzers", were unable to get room enough to 10 their work or course Senator Cummins was moved by no such znrdid consideration in proposinE to 7bolish the cOmmissi on. He is too liz a statesman for that; and more over, he has, for himself. become possessed of fine three-roOm suite, -nd could not rossibly entertain sem timents Of jealorsy towads any lame suck on account of the office space fssued. But his case is not parallel ed in the exrerience of some 5f is colleagues, who would Ike to bre K 'nto those monetary commission rooms. and would ne willing 10 help to abolish the wholesale sinecure.
 The commission is by far the most identified Of it's kind ever created by coneuess. It has Q secretary at fancv salary. Q disbureing officer of It's own. a librarian and clerk. No- body has authority to audit it's ac- counts or to interfere in any way with its expenditures. It just takes t.e money and spends it.
 Spend Cash Freely.
 There are some interesting stories about faru'ous prices said 70 have heen paid for articles b. various writers on finance written for the commiefion. Nobody knows much aro1t these stories, but it is prom isad that the accounts are 70 be brought ont and aired. and that the 2 will pro~e interesting mat-sr fer newspaper readers.
 The commission is said 10 have srent s200. 100 in three years e it's existence. Nobody ventures suess when it miRht get tired Of drawlhg it's salaries and decide to report, but the feeling is that. as the drawing is not arduous lator, it might con tinue some little time So the senate as well as the house Is discussing the question of abolishing the lo'is- Ridrich To Get His.
 Also behind the move to abolish the commission is found the enter taining tale that certain senators | rilI even scores with Senators Aid -ich and Hale. They are the legisla- tors who suffered III at the hands ! If the ev-Nev EngIap5 statesmen in treir palmy days in the senate, and ! they are now looEing up the rd,ss | of the old game Of tit for tat.
 l As to the other commissions that l have come under the ban Of dem7. ! cratic economy, the same general feeling is expressed by the repre-. | sertatives of the house. It is esti l mated that, should the retired i statesmen be thrown out Of then
 'ots, and the various commissions ] discontinued, nearly S1,000, 900 an
 nually will he saved to the United
 States treasury.