Garland Globe | 1907-03-02 | Page 2 | Twenty Cents a Mile for Congressmen

Twenty Cents a Mile for Congressmen. Congress-men. Washington. When tho roport of tho conferees of the legislative, executive exec-utive and Judicial bill was presented to tho house, Mr. Crumpackcr of Indlnna asked what provlslou was mado respecting tho mlleago allowance allow-ance of members of congress, In view of tho Incronsn In salaries. Mr. Lit-tauor Lit-tauor explained that tho amount remained re-mained nt 20 cents n mile. Ho said, however, that tho committco on appropriations ap-propriations would doubtless limit tho nllowanco to actual traveling expenses ex-penses in tho general deficiency bill.