This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...five days in a sumptuous cabin, replete with every luxury, as their fathers paid for roughing it over the mountains in fifteen to twenty days at a far greater cost. Col. Benton, --who deemed himself and meant to be an honest man, --somewhere about 1836, made a claim on the treasury for about two thousand ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...five days in a sumptuous cabin, replete with every luxury, as their fathers paid for roughing it over the mountains in fifteen to twenty days at a far greater cost. Col. Benton, --who deemed himself and meant to be an honest man, --somewhere about 1836, made a claim on the treasury for about two thousand dollars which (he computed) was required to bring up his mileage in past years to a par with the charges of others; and this amount was allowed and paid him. "Said First Comptroller Elisha Whittlesey to me, i near the close of his long, upright, and useful public life, ' Even Mr. Calhoun has increased his charge for mileage since the old horseback and stage-coach days; and there is just one man in Congress who charges mileage now as all did then: that man is Henry Clay. "Getting into the House, I had access to the schedules of compensation and mileage which (though they are said to be printed) were not (and are not) easily found by outsiders; and I resolved to improve my opportunity. So I hired a reporter to transcribe them; and (using as a basis of comparison the United-States topographer's official statement of the distances from Washington, by the most direct mailroute, of each post-office in the country) I aimed to show exactly how much could be saved, in the case of each member, by computing mileage on the most direct post-route, instead of 'the usually-travelled route.' This exposS, when prepared, was transmitted to New York, duly appeared in ' The Tribune, ' and so came back to Washington. "I had expected that it would kick up some dust; but my expectations were far outrun. It happened that two of our Whig members from Ohio had been run out by close votes at the recent election (October, 1848), and that the crooked mileage they charged had...
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