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S. C. CONGRESS
DELEGATION COSTS
TAXPAYERS $300,000 -
I signed by a congressman oj hisisec-
'retary.
'Senators are allowed to make 150
ja&rtment
today.
of Education announced
The Sears Roebuck Foundation has
minutes of long-distance telephone donated a total of fifty pure-bred
’ (Special article from
and Courier, Charleston,
Washington corerspondent
gressional expenses).
' calls per session, but members of the
The News 1 house get no long-distance telephone
by their ^ allowances. Local telephone service; tributed to .the five supervisory diS'
Hereford bulls to the state FFA as
sociation, and these are to be dis
ers
on con-1 * s without charge—except to the tax
payers—on both sides of the Capitol.
All official congressional mail goes
Washington, Nov. 6.—The taxpay-j free, under the congressman’s frank.
shell out well aver $300,000 an-;I n addition, each member receives
„ . * • P er session for other postage,
nually to maintain the South Carolina K
^ i such as special deliveries and air mail
congressional delegation in the s ^y^ e ( letters.
to which congress has ruled they ^ These itemS) obviously, are hard to
should be accustomed. calculate. But rough estimates, which
And that figure does not take into seem to be fair and conservative,
consideration such items as the C ost! w °uld indicate the South Carolina
: delegation absorbs! Some $23,000 of
of office space, equ.pment and uUU- the taxpayers ,
money annually in
ties, which if paid for at the general producing letters, ijnd possibly $16,-
rates prevailing in Washington for, qqq j n telegraph and long-distance
similar accommodations, might easi- tolls
ly add $100,000 to cost of the dele
gation.
Big item in the cost of maintaining
the state's eight-man delegation is
personnel. More than a quarter of a
million dollars goes into this item
alone.
Calculating the exact personnel, t * t
cost of the delegation is not possible. | ers America federation that is
The house long since has made its made up of Laurens and Greenwood
payrolls a matter of public record, i counties is to receive one of the
but the senate payroll is a closely- { en Hereford bulls distributed to the
guarded secret except once a year, in Anderson district by the Sears Roe-
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Future Farmers To
Improve Beef Cattle
Columbia, Nov. 11. — (Special to
The Chronicle.)—The Future Farm-
tricts of the Agricultural Education
division. The bulls, which arrived
by truck from Texas last week, will
be "used by the young farmers for
the improvement of beef cattle, and
for, instruction in vocational educa
tion. * f i *3-
Distribution of the bulls to the
state’s 25 FFA federations, each com
prised of from six to 15 local ch&p-
tres, will be made by a district com
mittee composed of agricultural edu
cation teachers who instruct and su
pervise Future Farmer Work, an the
district supervisor of vocational agri
culture.
W. M. Mahony of Honea Path is
the Anderson district supervisor.
Counties in the Anderson district,
in addition to Laurens, are Oconee,
Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, Abbe
ville, Greenwood, and McCormick.
Cannon Resigns
City^Posifion
Belt’s...
“CLINTON’S SHOE HEADQUARTERS”
Pre-Than
late January, when the payroll for | Foundation, the Agricultural! w in
the preceding six months is pub- j Education division of the State De-
lished. I
Nevertheless, a fairly close approx- j
imation of the cost of personnel can
be made, and on this basis, the salary
costs of the South Carolina delega
tion, including the salaries of con
gressmen and their staffs, run to
about $275,000 annually.
Otb©r expenses which can be esti
mated, somewhat roughly, but .con
servatively, including stationery, tel
egraph, postage and telephone allow
ances, run to at least $55,000 a year.
By law, both senators and repre
sentatives are paid each $12,500 in
fiat salary, plus an additional $2,500
(tax fsee), vaguely labeled as money!
for “expenses.”
Whatever the expenses may be,:
f hey are ndr*fhe normal expenses of!
running a%usiness or professional!
office, and the $2,500 may be cbhsid-j
cred, by laymen, at least, as part of
a congressman's salary.
Thus South Carolina’s six repre
sentatives and two senators draw
Tiown $90,000 annually. Their staffs
get a larger total.
Total salaries paid clerical help of
all kinds by the six representatives
amount to $87,650.48 annually, on the!
basis of the last available house pay
roll (for September). Because of the
secrecy surrounding the senate pay
roll, it is impossible to present an
exact figure there.
NevtHthelgss, an estimate can be 1
made. Senators are allowed, in states |
the size of South Carolina, a base of)
$20,000 for clerical help in addition!
to the amounts of $10,000 and $7,000
available for pay of an administra- j
tive assistant and an executive sec-i
retary, respectively. Superimposed on!
the pay drawn from the $20,000 base,
for clerks is an "overtime” factor!
ranging from 10 to 15 per cent.
Rought?. an estimate of $26,500 per ;
senatorial office, plus the $17,000 for 1
the two top aides, seems safe—a total
.'or the senate side staffs of $87,000, |
or for all congressional staffs of more
than $174,000 a year.
In the matter of allowances, the
story is again hard to get. Members
of the house are allowed $500 a year
for stationery. In the senate, the sta
tionery allowance is practically un
limited, because if a senator exceeds
a given figure, the difference is made
up by the senate secretary from his
contingent fund.
There is, supposedly, some sort of
limit on telegraph allowances, but the
Capitol Western Union office, as well
as house and senate disbursing offic-
agree that there is practically no
Arnold M. Cannon who has been
connected with the city water and
light department, has resigned ef
fective November 15. Mr. Cannon
engage in commercial wiring
and electrical construction work.
Colored Man Found ^
Dead Near Home
Laurens, Nov. 10.—Manning Bonds,
38 year old Negro man, was found
dead Monday morning behind the
barn at his home jn the Sandy
Springs sectroi|i with a shotgun wound
in his head which sheriff’s pffibers
said was probably self-inflicted.
Deputy Sheriff Paul Prince said'
that when he arrived oh the scene
he found a single-barrelled shotgun
lying bieSide the dead man’s body and
a stick about four feet long which
evidently had been used to push the
trigger. Deputy Prince said he found
a letter in Bonds’ cbat* written on
the back of a delinquent tax notice
saying “I’m worried tp death.” Coro
ner R. I. Burgess emphnnelled a jury
and announced that an inquest would
be held at a future date. Bonds lived
on the farm of L. B. Dillard of Clin
ton.
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Thursday, November 13, 1947
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