Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-07-31
COST OF DISCUSSING BRYAN.
Bill Charged up to Senate During
Talk on His Decision to Lecture.

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Washington, d. c., 9Special)-Uncle
Sam stands charged up with Sic, 265.76
to cover the expenses of the fllumina-
ton received by his subjects from dis
cussions on the floor of the United
States Senate as to whether or not it.
is wiser for William Jennings Bryan.
the secretary of State. to make
!; speeches on the C~hautauqua circuit
during the leisure moments of spend
his vacation loHing on the banks of
some quiet stream a~nxiously awaiting
the nibble of the elusive trout.
This sum represents the salaries
due the Senators, officials of the SEN
ates sergeant-at-arms, clerks, eleva-
tor conductors, and other miscelIan-
eous employees, and stationery for the
Senate sessions of last Wednesday
and Friday which were devoted prin-.
cipally to the discussion of Secretary
Bryan's action by Senator Bristow,
Republican, of Kansas, and the replies
made to his remarks by several Dem
ocratic Senator's.
Of this amount, the salaries of the
Senators amounted to $3,945.32 for
two days, while the salaries of the
Wee President, who was AN interest
ed listener and the employees of the
Senate were $11,320.44.
Senator Bristow himself viii receive
SAL 10 as his salary as Senator dur
ing the two days, Wednesday and Fri
day, that he sought to explain to the
country what a calamity it was, from
the standpoint of diplomacy between
nations, to have our own William Jen-
nings mount the platform n explain
to our people how they could become
better citizens.
But $41.1O must also be paid to
beach of the other 95 Senators who
form that great legislative body,
which halted in it's onward path for
two days tt determine whether Sec
rotary of State Bryan has been prop
erly employing his vacation period.
But this sum does not represent
the cost for printing Senator Bristow's
speech in the Congressional Record
or the answe rthereto: of running the
electric fans while the Senators and a
large number of spectators waxed hot
around the collar listening to his re-
marks, or for sending broadcast
through the mails to all parts of the
country, thousands of ranked copies
of Mr.. Bristow's eloquency as an al
legged formidable Republican campaign
document. - = IL sHEu
The cost of conducting the United
States Senate during the past week
averaged $7,632.S8 per day, n the
sessions of Wednesday and Friday
:. were of about the average length,
perhaps just a little more. While the
debate brought On by Senator Bris-
tow's resolution criticising The Com
moner did not consume all the time
of these legislative days, yet the de-
bate lasted two hours each day and
was the principal business of those
days, the other business transacted
being simply incidental routine mat
ter such as the filing of memorials.
and introduction of private pension
bills and inconsequential resolutions.
And although Uncle Sam has paid
S~15,263.76 for the warning and advice
given by Senator Bristow, reports
coming to Washington indicate that
the ordinary citizen do not all agree
with the Kansas Senator, and there is
& suspicion that Uncle Sam possibly
has not gotten value received for the
price he paid.