The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 30, 1949, Page 7

ow at THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1949 * Things American. Taxpayers Ought To Know About sash ion wae i (FNS).—Military lea’ WASHINGTON—It's past time the taxpayer of this country ing, field exercisesior @ demanded that senators’ payrolls be made a matter of public duty will be granted t information. The way senators hide their payroll, conceal ef-! county: and municipal ployes and generally get by with misuse of public money i8 4) and officers who are disgrace to our democratic form of government. Members of} the Florida National Guard, Brig. the House must list their employes and the taxpayer-employer } Gen. Mark W. Lance, state adju- | of these congressional employes can see the records and lists) tant general, announced recently. ‘ All federal officers and, e¢m- of ewployes at any time. ‘ wtb % tke: thoried + But the vasperee pore can’t see what his senator is plang wasisd vee : doing with public money. He can’t see who is on the sencitons | \RTCE i incetiat Mendes on't yroll. He can't find out what allowances his senator is draw interpretation of the new Florida { g. He is rnd lie a commoner at the castle when Military Code by Richard W: Er- he go>s eeeking this public information. Of course, the Senate] yin “Attorney General. He said, payroll, allowances and expenses are public information—j|The plain interpretation of the now being withheld from the public. i language of the section. imposes The Setate deepes wae 2 SS” noge the nde s _ officers let anyone see his precious rec- from forty to eighty thousand eee Pig 16 8 ords. Me says he has instructions‘ dollars to pay off clerk hire of} guard is employed the imperative to keep them “private”. Last; some Senators. There may be] duty 4o grant leave of absence year this newspaper's reporter | ‘nothing wrong about any: of it,; Under the circumstances recited contacted the Senate secretary,| The point, however. is that the} i" the statute and he too said merely that he) public is entitled to know what had “instructions”. Where these | Congress is doing with its money, instruction came from remains a} and especially what public ser- mystery but the Democrats now | vants, like Congressmen, are do- in contro! have given no indica-|jng with the taxpayers’ money. tion whether public financial in-| Those Congressmen, who are formation concerning Senators} paying their relatives a small for-| Every time he speaks to me he will be given to the public or} tune, in clerk hire, for instance, | starts, ‘Fair lady.,” withheld like # has been in re-'and who thus get members of} Brother: “Romantic, my eye! eunt years. their family entitled to nice re-]He usd to be a. street-car con- The surest way to get the ball|tirement pay, when said family | ductor.” rolling on this rotten business is} members often do little, if any, —————_——_—_———_ for the voter in every State ,to| work, shouldn't mind the public] Sail fishes and Sword tell his or her Senator just what} knowing what the toll is. are the swiftest fish known. he thinks about such a_ system Many a Congressman will re- The Senators ought to be told,| tire in the next few years on four | secreterial pay, goes\on serenely e = people, that their allow-|or five hundred dollars a month,}even when Congress is out—and penses and clerk sala-}and many a Congressman’s wife | wife is attending cocktail parties paid by Mr, Taxpayer, | will retire on two or three hun+}at home or abroad, That is, dur- ss that Mr. Taxpayer wants to} d a month. When: the wife|ing many months of each year, re- didin’t work, or hasn’t earned }latives' and all Congressional water expense, why so. much this lush retirement, such is rob-}clerk-hire continue to receive : bery. She has usually been over-]}lush éheeks, though there is little paid in lush salary for Ker “work- | work*to be done. And the House ing days” as the Congressman’s | recently. voted itself another $3,- wife, and besides, the Congre: 500 for clerk hire—year round! A man is retired: nicely enough to}The taxpayer ought to know money is spent on fountain pens,| care for both. i these little things—and do some- - 4 desk sets, ete., and why it take Remember that wives’ and all| thing gbout it, — « ¥ * * SMOKE HANGS LOW over. the Staten Island weterfroht in New York harbor as flames destroy a coal loading dock of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Fireboats at left are pouring water on a. car float which was pulled away from the dock as, the fire started. 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