Show MOUNTAINS HOUN OF MAIL legislators at oyer 11 ii helmed by sent seat through the Pos and K G trazo daily sen news washington D C dec 0 5 it requires lequir cs the services eer vices of el eleven ovell persons to handle ibe the mail of the different representatives and senators at the capitol there arc are four deliveries a day of what ia is known as the congressional mail one the morning delivery before breakfast two at the capitol during the hours the wise vt tso solona ions are in session and ad another in the evening the first and last at the private residences of the members twelve wagon loads of letters and papers com comprise prize the a average ersic of the house mail for each day that of the senate of course is m much smaller jn ili addition to the regular clerks drivers and each chamber employs a limited number of boys wb who arc are known 6 as 4 riding pages they are furnished ponies and are used to deliver letters and documents docu menta at tho the dif different departments all and elsewhere throughout the city each receives salary of jer per annum there are three of these youngsters on the house side the TheSie senate nate h more extravagant mith scarcely one fifth as J many ninny members they find it imps j sible to get along with less than four riding pages 39 es this may bo be said isa id to be characteristic cli of the senate in every particular thai that body has bus twice tho tile number of employees relatively that the house has and tho tile pay k M invariably better betten speaker carlisle gets the havi fit CIA mail of any man in in public life he to to him hiril among the tile represents randall with belford of colorado thir third 1 belmont of diw york fourth fourt li and judge X 11 1 w of pennsylvania penn ni I 1 fifth III randalla ra I 1 1 and d kile K ile a mails like that of colonel Morri are mostly communications from busi bushings mc mel n 1 and land others asking for information 0 on n matters of tariff fin finance anceo and kindred sub ecta mr air Bel forda heavy mail wail is explained by reason of his bis being the only representative of a young and rapidly g growing rowing commonwealth colorado hai probably more veterans of the late war within her borders than any state of her tire in ill the tile union n As a most of these pew pie are interested in pensions cither to the extent of asking information ea rs to the best means of procuring ono one or inquiring as to lo delays in their settle settlement menti it will be boaden that his correspondence roust must be ne cessa ril n ly y large mr belford is pleased to be the object of this voluminous correspond correspondence ende and boasts of it among bia his fellow members with as much evident pride as if each particular envelope contained a certia cute of good character it i M not eo ad easy to account for belmonte Bel tp mall in T 1 I he ile is konug in in years ears and service he ile works bard flis his mail ii 19 greatly in elce of any member ot of the new york delegation this gives rise to some feeling and the remark Is frea frequently heard that belmont encourages his constituents to write to him in in order to create the iTy impre aslon that lie il e is really a man of aduain of the illinois members mei abera col morrison Morri aon receive i the largest mail wail ail chairman of the ways and meana committee he lie frequently received as many as sixty letters a day last session springer comes next ca cannons follows third on the list and ate the remainder of tho the delegation gat ion receive about the ber each uhl receives lve th 0 largest foreign mill mai of bf any aily member i r in either house last jast wint erthe ways and means fearis IN committee received more inore mail than the appropriation committee thir year the ways and anti means committee having no special 4 legislation before it will fall lo 10 tho tile second place and the appropriation wilf ailt take the post of honor gen ci mail of any member of the senate after Afler his hia last summer meier sn it tto b rapidly that the hc verb eer vices of hia his private and mra 1 M r 4 logan were entirely elv quate to the binok of k keeping up ui aitho the arrears on or such occasions it was no uncommon practice for ter the visitors to gen logana logans rooms many of lidbom were employees of the government to assist him with this work ork old tables chairs and even hat be tit astles as desks ks and often hal half f a dozen euper numer aries ries would be found laboring until midnight it is gen logana dogans invariable rulo rule to answer every letter later sent to him mail cornea comes principally from sol soldiers dieks and is S not ot confined by any apy meauli to his constituents in hf illinois not infrequently veterans write to him from tile middle nod and new weir england states S the bulk balk of letters from tol soldiers diers of war residing in the extreme southern states ia is addressed dres ead to gen logan mrs lopau over overlooks hie generals generali mail long familiarity as hia his enables her to her to tell directly which letters she can attend to hert tl self without her husband to read she is better known to the clerks in tha pension office than the general and of late years she has kt ended to nearly all of his correspondence many of these thue letters letter s arc are insufficiently eta stamped ruled the deficit is is paid by the senator chii item of expense alone ia Is said to amount to 25 per annum plumb of kansas follows logan as i the recipient of the next largest mail with allison of iowa and land of indiana not far behind As a rule the republicans receive eel re much larger mails than the democrats the difference in vor heelis case Is explained by hia his per sona popularity popular men in co congress agress are deluged with letters in the same degree as they ia in private life receive more attention than those who are more exclusive voorhees is a man of the people lie ile la is easily approached and ii is a hit anle lefel le fel fellow low well wel 1 met among the hotnes homespun pun farmers of the rooster state Alta although lough a copperi copperhead ead and a pe peace a democrat during g the war ar b he e has ae proven himself the friend of the tile soldiers since he became a sen sell ator aar he ile receives nearly nil all the letter letters relating to 0 p pensions ensigns from that state and hl his s m mail ail is probably thrice as large as that of hi hid col 01 league who was both a soldier and a union man next to voorhees rheo jones af of pf florida receives tho the largest mail on tho the democratic 1 side I de like belford Bel furd he is proud of it ja jones was born in ireland and worked hii ti way to bis his present prominence indence from froin a shoe makers bench ilia his correspondence corner como from every section of the coti country in in which respect it ia is similar to general logans Lo sann though not so diffuse the democrats De bemo rata are fire already paying the penally penalty of having achieved a great national victory since the election die the mail wail of members ot of congress Cou greBS of that party has doubled in tome some cased cases tripled the davy daily hews correspondent ru found 1 I mil if of texas in the appropriation committee room tho tile other day with a pile of letters lying before him and a look of hopeless resignation on his face esp ing 11 the che correspondent and abd point pointing iF to the letters ho be ei ex I 1 alamed clamed ned theras a budget of ill hwesi letters 1 I have just received 1 fifteen of then the number U aber are tire applications for office beaw between eel now and march eth the number will increase iii creato to 1000 there are a about bout a it dozen federal positions in my district that means dis a appointed aspirants who will knife 11 me ae at tb polls ills I 1 expect two yeara years hence bence cpr welburn of the same atna who has been similarly beset bai han laut tut the gordian knut knot by preparing a eircil lar letter referring applicants for government clerk i chips to the civil service coronia sion ion and refusing to notice the com of all others |