Show I 1 pickings picking s 1 I 1 IV aft extract the following curious item from a washington correspondents letter to the no new w tork crier courier and ad enquirer 8 dated june 34 date af paper june 26 I 1 I 1 t in european hotels stewards pa pay for their viks and live upon tie the perquisites A new york So comon councilman Cron cilman gets no salary for his servi I 1 I 1 giad and yet alree aswell as well ns as even a gentleman ought knight to do upon the proceeds roc pads these perquisites i I 1 are familiarly known in ili our political phrase 1 a aa P pickings I 1 el kiep and lings I 1 Ts ane pickings arid and steal lings lugs of a member of 1 1 contreas Con Covi greas grem to rival tho the illicit receipts of 91 is new york alderman or an upper servant at I 1 morley contons Fon tons I 1 I 1 the most noted abuse is the biennial stealing I 1 I 1 I 1 of the books this Is it a verb very curious custom like thil the shearing of gf the giras gns in Brit brittany or the I 1 I 1 vibo atle of beauties fur fui the Tuil turkish tish hares harems 11 r the Rol roman uail carnival val it to is the arst striking I 1 and unique feature in our national manners I 1 in 11 st ft compilation compili tion of the curiosities of politics atwould it would I 1 I 1 have a very striking place I 1 I 1 1 1 this coren ceremony lony consists lit in the main of pillaging I 1 the Tree treasury sury and dividing imong among two hundred and nd thirty members of congress about I 1 by va way of enlightening the keople tins tills is done I 1 I 1 ly by to each I 1 meynier five or six sax hundred volumes of bool books s de signed designed to f oria form a fu I 1 full ell I 1 I 1 I 1 political lib library miry tile clarks estimate e of the ex 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 jonseof of this proceeding during dai ing the present congress CORI coni I 1 I 1 I 1 is I 1 the ou atoni began in rf fey few modest arid and moderate pilfer ings s aach E wh member I 1 I 1 voted toted himself a dozen copies ftfe congressional I 1 I 1 globe costing a hlen hundred 6 dollars qi y aa so lt ibert diw I 1 I 1 conf confessed emed a till bill of plunder to the amount of and hag haa now reached to strengthen and solidify y 14 hs k knowledge nailed go of the 1 constitution each member receives one hund hundred r ed I 1 and sixty lone one copies coplas of that standard ird document I 1 in order t tp ground round lihn him well vell in ili of th abe I 1 I 1 W to which he belongs lie he hakea bakia i u vies of k the A annals of congress and abd 24 more mom of the oni coni Congest I 1 s slona globe nod and lakes kes in the treasury u ayau in I 1 these volumes to the extent of I 1 1 I 1 the total cost of ille four boxes ot of books which I 1 I 1 each member votes to himself teat that he be may obtain I 1 the tha for the serva bof his I 1 I 1 is 1202 this respectable addition I 1 I 1 to t chisper hw per them diem increases every succeeding vear mity marty additional addition til works are arb now passing through I 1 I 1 1 abe press which bp be added to th ast of congressional pickings and it is su supposed posed that if not I 1 tock ce caked ked edtha the um sum voted andr tins ibis head wh tr amount to thu hup padding about abound I 1 to the compensation of members of confess I 1 te I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 But what That narks this abig app appropriation books I 1 0 I 1 1 as an ain example ft arnIe of the most glaring and barefaced bare faced is ia the fact that while taken ekeh under the I 1 aleace vt of distribution among their 0 o 1 they are not generally ten taken fry the members at 1 I 1 all allbut bat are at sold i iq bond without having been bean seen sen by them they arz ar then resold re sold to tile the clerk I 1 4 I 1 I 1 of the house ause 1 by bythe flie persons dersom s engaged in this braf I 1 1 fie of who retains them for the th next I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t vision among members embers ni I 1 1 each of af these political libraries cots costs the I 1 government 1402 it is said that the current I 1 I 1 I 1 pr price ice is only atwould ir It would be b a I 1 groat t 4 deal aest 1 better to vote the money at once I 1 IV aro I 1 I 1 I 1 would a great graat saving to the treasury I 1 of the ration arid and in the he honor h onor of the individuals I 1 I 1 1 concerned ned in the operation I 1 |