Show I in fri the Mouse House Comes High THINK OF IT- IT J GErn MEN j THIS L I ALLS LS 1 FOR FOI OR r I 80 30 C fl CENTS T T S i 5 T Y L Y M J GH ROBBERY ROBBERY- i w W fhe The cl craze ze for or statistics sla sta sta- Tv has Inva invaded ed th the most ba red of precincts It has attacked assaulted indicted and and convinced ed the V most parlous of at statisticians themselves them them- selves the selves the m members o of congress Proof by statistics fur furnished right righton on the floor of the house that the sp speeches there ther cost more th than n the total amounts of many of the Ite items 8 under disc discussion has left left the en entire re aggregation In chronic terror that when their most fl flowery H lT orations are being sI speeded s on ot their way to the morgue of the COI Congressional gressional Record I some treacherous antagonist may arise reverse his cuffs and nd nd read rend off oct evidence that the honorable gentleman's gentleman's gentle gentle- mans man's silence would woul be goJ golden en Like the famous discovery of ot dry farming in the west est because of the of a mule lUule the economy oi ot words in congress was precipitated by horseshoes The state department had an item of or for Ml Missouri representatives declared they were from the show me state The Tho secretary secretary sec see rotary of state couldn't show the tho shoes which had been worn out There was a quarter of otan an hour hoar of oratory or or oratory atory when up rose a r representative from rom Pennsylvania Gentlemen me 1 he I said ald it an hour to run this this hou house e and we we have already spent 2 w orth worth ct t wor words trying to skin a item Lets I ets et's l The total of the rc years year's rs r's appropriation tion for the upkeep o of the house was 0 Actual dayn days number 90 90 and ad the average a time of or a aday's aday's aday's days day's work worl is Is' Is five hours The normal 2160 ZiCO hours houra in 90 days would make the house expense run Into per per- er hour on a a 24 hour ho 24 r basis But allowing al al- al lowing only five hours of or honest work per day the expense amounts to 10 10 7 p per r h hour ur The Thc salary alary roll of the members amounts to 2 Their mileage is 15 1000 The clerks pst for those who are arc credited to members mem mem- tiers bers and for clerks of at com corn es There There aro a number of minor Items among them hem the salary of or 1200 t that goes oes to the chaplain who prays prays for congress's wisdom He Hehl Heia Heis is ia about the poorest paid of all considering considering con con- the size of ot his job |