$2,800 To salary as Clerk of Senate Committee on Conchology, six days, at $6 per day ...........

$36 Total ..........................

$2,986 -- [Territorial delegates charge mileage both ways, although they never go back when they get here once.

Why my mileage is denied me is more than I can understand.] Not an item of this bill has been paid, except that trifle of thirty-six dollars for clerkship salary.

The Secretary of the Treasury, pursuing me to the last, drew his pen through all the other items, and simply marked in the margin "Not allowed." So, the dread alternative is embraced at last.