Show cc Z 1 11 1 lUas t ti e lar us 8 St vT i L S v 5 5 5 I I I Senator O 0 E Weller and Representative John Philip Hill HIli S IG COST SUM H EItY TWO iRS y-EAns BY Hr CHARLES I P STI STI NE Service Writer WASHINGTON 1 Sept Con S-Con- S Con campaigns must cSt tJ postoffice every two years yeats years according accordine to figures fi In the controversy be- be b tween Senator 0 O E elIer eller of Maryland and Representative John Philip lUll Hill of the tho same sarno state tate Republican V Weller ller Is trying for a Republican lican senatorial Sep Sep- September September Sep September 14 Hill Is trying to get the nomination for himself HU HIli accused Weller Veller eller of sending out political letters und under und r his sen- sen son son- sen senatorial atonal frank to save sa postage Weller rejoined that dur InS the last session of congress rend read Into the Congressional Roe Rec Re Record lr l ordas ord os i s-a s speeches everything e er h he say i voters and now Is sending out the Congre Congressional Record under hI his frank The Tho nub of It Is that Weller eller estimates Hlll campaign postage sta taruj i bill would have havo been 22 22 It If hed he'd paid for tor hi his outgoing mall mail If It Wallers Waller's figure is l rIght as to and anil It if other congressmen men arO arOas aroas areas as free with their correspondence as he Ie He e begin to see seo one reason wh why theres there's a postal deficit The terms of 32 senators and 4 3 5 representatives expire simul simul- simultaneously simultaneously biennially Multiply by th their lr total and and you get set or I a a year which the postoffice department works for but doesn't set get le Probably in reality 2000 per Congressman Is too high Never Never- Nevertheless the the amount of ot free freo mall mail that goCS goes coe out of Washington when a political campaign Is on onIs Is almost unbelievable The postoffice never has at- at attempted attempted at attempted tempted to determine Its volume what's the u use e It wouldn't pay anything anyway anyway- anyway but traInloads of It l la Is the way its it's described at at the tir department lt Chairman 1 W R U Woo Wood of o 0 the Republican congressional cam cath- cath cam committee predicts re that the next congress will bo ho almost as dry as tho present one It wont won't b be bh wet at an any rate At least theoretically a a wet house of or representatives Is a pos pos- possIbility possibility pos but not a wet senate un Un uh-leaa uh less some dry senators flop lop over oyer overto overto to the wet side tide All the representatives Cs gO out of office at once but hut only one one- third one third of the senators Consequently It if the wets aro are numerous enouGh enouch they can aroI I the th complexion of the lower lo house houto at a I single sincle election They can all change senators how how- however however however ever only a ft third at a I time Now tho present holdover er t two two- 1 0 thIrds ar dry by so large II a m ma- ma that that the tho senate would bo be predominantly dry even I It if all the third one who are arc elected or elected orre-elected re elected this year should be bo orI I which wet wet which of course COUlse nobody ex- ex expects expects ex expects I Wets then on much on any modification ot of the th drought ht from the lice They can gaIn train but they can hardlY win The chances of Hops by dry makers law makers law Into wets however shouldn't be bo underestimated There Ther are aro plenty ot of them who vho are just as as ready to vote ote one I way aa as as the other to suit theIr constituencies If It the th drys drs gain cain ground found In No- No November No November I vember ember the con congress gross will almost completely dry up It If they break even e or If It the wets gain I a a little things will stay about as they are arc now no But let the wets gain a I great deal and It will be b flop flop flop flops pretty fast All AIl the All the same Representative Woo Wood 1 s 's a s on tolerably sate safe ground In predicting that the next con con- con gross ress will be dry |