Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — SENATE DISPOSES OF “JUNK” [ARTICLE]

SENATE DISPOSES OF “JUNK”

Champagne Cooler Among Antiques Sold at Auction—Electric Automobile Sold for $6.50. V Washington, Nov. 18. —The senate Avent into the salvage business by: the sale at auction of accumulated - fixtures and furniture of the senate, dating back to the days of the -sixty-first congress. A lemonade bowl, from which tired senators quenched their thirst in the cloak moth, went for $3; a champagne cooler, dts senatorial function not specified, brought sl. A sofa and five big leather chairs were knocked down for $l4O. Two of these chairs formerly adorned the marble room. An Icebox..formerly a regular attendant at finance committee deliberations. went for a song. An electric runabout, once the property of the late Senator Elkins of West Virginia, and which had stood for years in the senate garage, brought $6.50. Altogether the sergeant-at-arms collected $1,200.