Impecunious Congressmen

"Althougli a congressman gets about $13.50 a day in thewayof salary," said au old time house attaché, "there are a great inany nien in the lower brauoh of congress who are always short of raoney. Quito a nuaxber spend their income recklessly, but a great many have legitima te domestic expenses that run so close tu the amount of their salary thát they have hard picking at times to get aloug. "A considerable number of rnembers discount their salaries at the banks. They are eharged something like 8}L per cent, and if the total of this account were made public it would make a remarkable showing. It is by no means the new or younger members who aro oftenest short before salary day comes around. Many of the older members, who have sat in the house for years, ai-e in this predicament quite frequeutly. Many of them are men of irreproachable habits, but with large and expensive families to support and with heavy political obligations at home forming a constant drainou their exchequerwhich