The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-01-11
THEY SEEM TO
NEED THE MONEY
In Their High Living at
Washington,
EXPLAINS SOME OF REASONS
Why Cost of Running the
Government is IncreaS-
ing So Fast.
SEEM TO BE GOOD sPENDEIss

[By Clyde H. Tavenner, Special
Washington Correspondent OF The
Herald.
Washington, Jan. Some of the
reasons why the cost of running the
Government is increasing so fast,
and why it would really be possible
for Senator Aldrich to save the peo-
pie lot of money If he would run
the Government as a business man
.we&ld -sSr.. i.Y~are iR-tAe-Fe--
port of Secretary of the State Ben
nett for the fiscal year, 1910.
Vice President James S. Sherman
drew on the people for $1,000 to
maintain a touring car. He kept
track of every puncture during the
year, and saw to it that the people
stood the damage. 1t might be pre-
sumed that after the Government
had presented the Vice President
with a handsome car, the man of
the sunny disposition would at least
insist upon providing the driver.
Mr.. Sherman, however, not only
charged the chauffeur's salary up to
the people, but permitted the tax
payers to reimburse him for the
auto drivers railroad fare back and
forth between Washington and Uti-
ca, N. Y, Mr.. Sherman's home town.
But this isn't all. The Vice Presi-
dent made the people even pay for
his chauffeur's coat and pants"
(see page 7O2 Of report,)
Guggenheim Needs the Money.
Senator Simon Guggenheim, of
Colorado, one hundred times a mill
ionaire and then some, had his daily
newspapers and all the kilograms
for the year charged up to the Gov
eminent.
Senator William Lorimer, of Illi-
nois, apparently had urgent business
with a man named Browne, of Otta-
wa, ILL.,, and charged the kilograms
up to the people. Lee o. O'Neill
Brown, who was charged with hav-
ing a hand in bribing legislators to
vote for Lorimer, lives at Ottawa.
ILL.,, and 1t is more than barely pos
sible that the two Brownies are one
and the same. Oh. you Illinois
statesman! Seantor Lorimer also
did considerable telegraphing to the
Chicago beef barons-at the expense
of the people. The nature of the
business is not revealed.
Tom Carter a Good Spender.
The report intimates that when
Senator Tom Carter, of Montana,
escorted the members of the irriga-
ton committee on a trip to the
West to investigate irrigation pro-
jects, the party travelled like kings,
using private diners, drawing rooms.
and tipping the porters and attend
ants everywhere with a lavish hand
always, of course, with the peo-
pies money. For a two days side
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per. Wyo., to Pathfinder Dam, on
September Z, 1910, the Montana
Senator spent $3.50 for transporta-
ion alone. Although no one knows
IF any irrigation projects at Seattle,
Wash, three senators and attend
lnts managed to spend $125.30 for
board and lodging" at Seattle in
wo days. In the meantime their
luxurious private cars sat on a sid
ng unused. Senator Carter must
lave been a good spender. Fees
Ind porterage" and "incidentals"
or which no vouchers were obtain
ID, ran into the hundreds of dol
ars.
Some of the things the Senators
n Washington made the people pay
or we're: Eight dozen lady scissors
md one dozen manicure scissors.
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