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Show $40,000 PRIMARY A PHANTOM Congressmen Fear Siblev Will Cause National Publicity Bill. 1 Congressmen in Washington, especially espe-cially those who do not waut to pa3 a publicity bill for campaign receipts and expenditures, were talking in dark corners about the expenditure of 4140.000 by ex-Representative Jos-e.n Jos-e.n C. Sibley, hero of tho Archibald letter episode, who has just defeated bis successor, Representative Wheeler, Wheel-er, for the Republican nomination for congress in the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania district. Inasmuch as Mr. Sibley's total remuneration, re-muneration, counting all perquisites to his office, if re-lected to congress, will be only about J18.RO0 In two veais. It U difficult to understand why he wanH to go lack to Washington wher. bU primary nomination alone stands him a dead loss of I22.0C-0 and he has yet to be elected, wait wort than year before taking his seat and then live two years after that One answer is contained In Mr. Sibley's Sib-ley's complaint about the criticism leveled against his extravagance. The gist of his argument is: "I have plenty ot money, and I want to go back to congress. Why shouldn't I?" |