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Show SENATE SECRETARY 1KESI1IS REPORT Timothy Hay, Razors, Grapefruit Grape-fruit Knives and Red Tape Among Articles Bought WASHINGTON, Dec. S. Razors,, grapefruit kirives, spools of red tape, horseshoes, G050 pounds of timothy hay, oats, metil and bran, straw, arnica, gargling oil and liiiimont are among the items 'for which expenditure wcro made out of the contingent fund of tho senate sen-ate for the period sinco last March up to the end o the last fiscal year. The condition is disclosed in the report re-port of James M. Bnkor, secretary of the senate, which has just been sent to the public printer. The liniment and horseshoes and the hay wore for the senate stables, in which aro kept tho horses to draw the Bonate messengor wagons. Juat what the gxapefruit knives wero used for was not explained. Among the other expenditures was $13.12 for fios3 pillows and numerous items for hags of salt for the senators' bathroom, mineral waters, taxicabs lo convey senators from night sessions to their homos, and items for dinners furnished to the senate pages detained at tho capitol by lato sessions. |