Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-31
JERSEY TO TAKE LEAD IN TARIFF CONSIDERATIONS

room and bath without asking the
price. and sat and shivered when they
found they were paying $40 a. day for
room, without meals. But SMALL
clothes and others they met took it
for granted they would want TO be
there's When it came to picking a.
house for the family Jones went to an
agent The agent. of course, showed
him where Smallclothes and other
rich members lived and offered him
houses at from hundred month up.
Maybe Jones asked for something
cheaper.
"Oh," said the agent, you have to
go out to the northeast to get some-
thing cheaper. and, of course, you
want to live in the northwest, where
you'll be among other members. Other
sections are undesirable"
Total staggers Jones.
So Jones succumbed He took the
big house and. aping the example of
the Snallclotheses and others, hs
and his wife entertained" Instead
of eating a ten-cent lunch in a saloon
or dairy kitchen, as he had at home,
Jones got the habit of dropping in at
a fashionable grill and spending 81
or So. They were occasionally asked
to dinner or to the theatre, and, of
course, had to return the entertain
ment. And at the end of the year
they totalled up the bill. found them
selves in debt and decided that Jones
couldn't afford to stand for reelection.
There are any number of congress-
men and officials who escape this
farce. They are, though, usually men
who come here to work at their jobs
| Just as they would go to work at any
lob and they keep the job separated
from their private lives. and go on
living In small houses, and living
simply as they have have lived at
home. And these working members
stay here year after year, and If
| they don't get rich they save some-
thing out of their salaries.
| just now, though, Washington is
| seeing an unusual influx of the
Joneses-the new members elected by
accident. who believe in the tradition
! that they have a social standing to
maintain and that to maintain this
| is the most important part of their
duties. The real estate men and the
hotels get most of the salaries of this
| type, and of course encourage the
| tradition
New Cop Is Better Known.
| A new congressman in Washington,
! however, is really of about as much
| Importance as q new policeman.
| Probably fewer people know him and
of his arrival than would know of the
presence of the new cop on the beat
| There will be 495 members in the new
House. and it isn't likely that even
| the newspa permen who report the
| daily proceedings in that body will
ever have occasion to write the names
of more than fifty of them, except
when there's roll-call. But they
take themselves very seriously, for a
time anyway. and they serve as
amusement for others who have seen
new congressman arriving for years.
One of the new members from New
Jersey. who is getting ready to be a
working member, is Robert G, Brem-
| ner. the editor statesman. from Pas
! sale. Bob" came down for couple
of days last week to look things over
and get acquainted a little, and when
reporters asked him about patronage.
made the astonishing statement that
he had already promised all the post
masterships and other jobs in his dis
trict. completed his lists, and had no
patronage to worry about.