Show MILEAGE GRAB BEATEN MATTER that seems to have all aU allbut aUri A J I tj ri but escaped the attention of the th I public was the passage by b the house houseIn In the thc closing hours of the lust last con eon congress congress gress greEn pr ct a bill providing for the pay payment ment m nt o in mileage to the tb under the pretense that there ther was a constructive recess between the extra session that began a year ago last No November ember vember and the th regular session that immediately followed it As a matter of or fact there was as no recess reca whatever The extra session came to an end at atone one duc moment and the regular session began the next moment Nevertheless r members of or the house proposed to Spay pay themselves mileage from the th capital to their homes and then back to the capita The senate had the good sense and the Ule honesty to kill the bill ill but the action of or the house is none the less les reprehensible The in intent intent intent tent of the law la regarding mileage for members of congress c is to pay the ac actual actual actual expenses s of such members in tray trav traveling tra eling from front their homes to Washington and return It was wa manifestly manie ly impossible i for any an member no matter how close to Washington Wash Yash Washington ington he may have lived to go 0 home during a recess that never ne or existed existe The proposed mileage l allowance was a graft pure and simple It set in iii a high place an example of or petty thievery for all the of the government Members qC Q the house of or representatives representatives representatives tives hold hohl up UI their hands in holy hol t hor horror horror horror when a clerk is hi caught stealing a afew afew afew few lead pencils Yet no tip petty pelly theft was wils over ever m mere re dishonorable than the proposition to pay p y representatives 1 money to which they th y had no shadow of color of oi title |