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Show Congress as a Whole Seen to Be Conservative in Its Own Expense By aODNST DUTCHia (Nea Service Writer) WASHINGTON, Feb. II The rather excessive smount of hullsbsloo which ha been raised over the expense ex-pense tad cost of congress results In numerous inquiries at to the amount received by th S31 members mem-bers of the senat and the house for vsrlous purposes. Actual apportioned annuel compensation com-pensation and allotment to Individuals Individ-uals are the following: Salaries House end senete, fSOOO. Clerk hire Senete, SM20; house, MM. Stationery House and senate, ISO. Aver ie mllesge sllowsnce Senete. Sen-ete. mil; house. . Respite the fsct thst t000 or SfrOOO has been spent on mineral water for Ions. Th (enat pay only tor th help. The aenate pay five barbers about $7000 a year also tor tha reason that it seemed mora reasonable to save the time of senators who want to spend all day at their piece of business busi-ness instesd of going downtown for haircut, although no good reason hss been discovered why they shouldn't pey for this bsrberlng snd th hair tonic. Thsr would be far less mineral water consumed If there were other drinking weter availebl In th capltol cap-ltol snd th committee rooms. The house also maintain a physicians' phy-sicians' office so that If a member of either house drops dead or apparently apparent-ly deed, as members occasionally do, he may have prompt attenUon. This may or may not be a subject for criti-iCitm. senator in singl yesr, there is lull lu-ll complaint anywhere at the general gen-eral cost of opereUon and maintenance mainte-nance of thl vast legtslstive business plant, which employs about J000 person per-son and represent and work for 130.000,000 others. Lest yesr the cost of operating house and senate was some Sll.tOO,-000. Sll.tOO,-000. Next year it isn't likely to run much above glO.OOO.OOO. That' lass than th approprlaUon for any of th executive departments and lee than one-quarter of 1 per cent of total federal expenses. e e The economy act, with It 10 per cent pay cuts for member snd leaser reductions for ether employes, its 25 per cent reduction la mileege allowance allow-ance and reduction in each member's stsUonery allowance from $124 to S0, resulted in a saving of 11.000.000. So far In this fiscal yeer the senete haa appropriated only $10 000 for Its investigation!, as compered with last year's total of S340.000. Th legislaUve appropriation bill In the house cells for 12.S2S.OO0 for the senete snd I7.41S.0O0 for the house. A few member save on clerk hire and pocket the saving or put members of their family on the payroll who don't work. Others feel the need of hiring clerk beyond the allowance and pay from their own pockets for it; Most of them hire and pay In accordance accord-ance with their allowance. eae ; There I evidence that sometime la the pest senators hav been liberal on their expense accounts while on "Junkets." Lately there ha been a noteworthy tendency to eliminate Junkets, although congressional tn-vastigaUona tn-vastigaUona hav saved fer more money than they hav (pant. Moat member us up their $9 annual an-nual stationery allowance and quite few pey out tddiUonal funds for office supplies, Th same thing goes tor travel mileage. The senile restaurant, for which S17.000 la recommended next year, charges more then average price tor Its meets and may be used by anyone any-one heving buiinees at the capltol since the capltol is remote from the business center. It can't break even, beceus It serve but on meal per pataoa a day tod eeu during eat- |