Show FUNERAL JUNKETS THE philadelphia news makes some vigorous strictures on tho the doings of congress at funeral junkets bethink we think they are justified if the alleged facts are correct representative oates has declared that the regular f funeral escorts made whenever a member of congress dies become drunken debauches at the public expense these congressional funerals f are very expensive to the country and according to vouchers sworn to by the at arms a large portion of the money g goes for liquors for the mou mourners r ners the f funeral junkets of the present session have cost the country the snug sum of fifty thousand dollars it would require a great deal of whisky and an enormous number of cigars to make up u half that amount and why should LUC lutei UL a legislator require such a flow of fiery liquid and suen an immense cloud of tobacco smoke the look of the whole thing is bad the example to the nation is bad and the moral it conveys is bad surely some better method of paying respect to the departed congressman could be devised than surrounding his bis corpse with the fumes of ardent spirits and sending him off to the grave in smoke congressional funeral junkets ought to be e better regulated or entirely stopped |