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Show ARTICLES USED BV SENATORS, All Sorts and Descriptions Were Die. penssd Last Year. Charles tl. Bennett, secretary of the United Slates senate, has sent lo'thnt body his annual resirt detailing the . expenditures of. Iiih' year. In some 1 cases the Items are more characters- '.-tic '.-tic of a woman's Isiudolr than of sup- V , Idles for sinld and dignified senators. The slnllouery room, where articles aro put on sale at cost lo senators. In the year sold mnulciirn sets, wrist ( lings nt prices up to f.l and similar i-articles i-articles appreciated by women. Card ' cases, leal her casea for raiiroad passes and such articles found a large sale. The medicine chesl In the offleo of , the sergeant at arms dispensed SO.000 grains of qiilnlnn pills, a dotea pack-ages pack-ages of court plaster, largo quantities of pepsin and soda, mint Indicia and horehound drops to a lotal of twenty isiiinds. Toilet articles were dispone- " ed by the government to a large amount In such lines us bay ruin, j |