Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1914 — Peterson Stood Alone. [ARTICLE]

Peterson Stood Alone.

With the exception of Representative ,1. H. Peterson, all the Indiana representtaives prose: t when the house voted, late five other day, to retain the “mileage, graft” of 20 cents a mile for congressmen, opposed the measure. Representative Llob, Adair, Barnhart, Dixon and Moss wero even in favor of striking out all mileage allowances, while the others urged a -eduction in the present rate. Tho absentees were Korby, Cline, Culp and Gray. Mr. Peterson believes a congressman should get all the mileage graft he can get out of his job. Representative Cox, of Indiana, another democrat denounced it as a measly and indefensible graft: “I am going to cite a few illustrations of this practice,” he said to the committee. “I shall not dodge the issue at ' all but shall use myself as an illustration. ' I receive S3OO mileage at each session of congress and SSO pays my expenses from my home and from here hack to my home. Therefore I am realizing a net profit of $250 on mileage. Tgo home occasionally but 1 do not think the people of this country should he taxed to pay my expenses when I go home. I think I ought to pay those expenses • myself because when I go back home I go as much for my own interest as for the Interest of my constituents and, as a rule, all others do the same.”—Lake County Times. ,