Show PAID AID OFF AFTER 24 YEARS Nero c C ro Ie Ones Oue Fortune lui to lu i Effort t of or Woman n 0 III a n. n Through ou the untiring efforts of Miss Miriam Irlam J JS E. Benjamin of Boston a clerk clerkin In n one of the lie departments at Vash Wash glon has been awarded Samuel Samel Samuel Sam Sam- uel el Lee a negro who was elected to 10 congress twenty live years ago aso but hut never ever sworn In ht Samuel Lee went to the forty soy C congress a contestant for the tho seal scat of f a white man named Richardson from rom South Carolina The File fi light fight ht was a alon lon ong and memorable one before that ingress congress On the he last day of oC the session sc ses- ses s- s slon sion on the committee qu oft elections voted to o seat eal Lee Iee Near the close of oC the bus busy final inal session ses- ses sion Klon on on on March 1 4 Lee appeared before I tine the le sneakers sneaker's dC desk I. I In the tho hou mouse e of rep rep- s Just as he lie raised his hand and to be sworn in the clock over uvel the Lh speakers speaker's chair chait pointed to the hour of 12 2 and congress under the law lawas was as sol dissolved This placed Lee in a n peculiar po pos pos-i- l- l ion on He Be had been declared le legally ally entil en- en til tithed d to his scat but hut never no was sworn In n and never was paid For nearly wenty lI years ho has hag been unable to o collect his salary A few years ago aso Miss 1188 Benjamin w went nt to Washington o to work as a clerk cleric tel she had been heen there a while some som somene ono one ne told her of or Lees Lee's story She sou sought ht out ul Lee and found him ill From his wn lips she heard his story The rue government o should pay you ou she he said I 1 dont don't believe o it will stand for or Richardson receiving the salary salan while you were legally elected und and on- on titled to the thc sane same I will U. U try to bet get you ou the money Miss Bliss Benjamin wrote a letter to her brother Edgar ar P P. Benjamin of this Ibis eft city Ily Encouraged b by a reply from him she ho immediately took steps for Cor the flu recovery re- re CO Cl covery of Lees Lee's salau salary She carried her use case to lo the line chairman of the committee commit commit- tee tec ee on appropriations with the result that hat a hili was framed and while reported re- re ported fa favorably b by nine congressmen It t always failed railed of or passage The rho Lee Leo claim came up a again ain last Friday and after a long Ions light ht in the house louse the bill hili granting him him Ioa for two wo years cars salary and allowances was Boston Globe |