Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Cost of Burying a Senator. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Burying a Senator.

You must know it takes a good deal of public money to bury a Senator, says the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Fancy what a howl would come up from all England if the government was called upon to foot the bills for the burial of a deceased member of the House of Lords. A Senator who dies must, like an Egyptian king, be embalmed at an expense ranging from SSO to SIOO. He must have a casket to cost $350; kid gloves in quantities must be provided; attendants and hangerson of various kinds are paid a per diem from the time the breath leaves his body until he is put in the ground. Carriages must be provided for all who wish to ride. If he is to be taken home Pullman cars must be had for the funeral party at an expense of SI,OOO or $2,000 or more. It matters not, as the cost is to be loaded on the broad back of Uncle Sam. eals and lunches for the trip, with the liquors to wash them down, run up to hundreds more. The government is even called Upon to pay the ministers who say prayers. Well, prayers for some of them ought to ®ome high. • •,.? ; ■ Citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, tried to lynch a policeman. That is one way of improving the force—unusual, but efficacious.