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vana in January might produce raised eyebrows.
From time to time, Congressional committees studying the expenses of federal bureaus have found flimsy excuses being used for official travel by bureaucrats of high and low degree—and by military brass. There have been indications that weather conditions in Washington at a particular season influenced the planning of an “inspection trip’’ or “conference” in a distant clime.
Homebound taxpaying citizens can be pardoned too. for grumbling when they read, during the adjournments of Congress, that fixe Senators have just landed in Paris, or that a like number of Representatives have reached Rome, with the purposes of their visits treated vaguely in the press dispatches.
In general, the citizen outside of government has little basis fpr determining whether a particular trip is justified or not. Because members of Congress apparently are considered ‘‘newsworthy, their travels are likely to be reported more faithfully than those of the assistant foreign aid adnvnisfrator in charge of free pogo sticks for Hottentots, and it tun: be possible for the latter to ston off on the French Rivera, unnoticed. for a few weeks of “consul tatiops.”
The fact remains, however, fhar there is. at present, no detailed public accounting of either Congressional or Executive travel—nr for that matter, of travel bv members of the Judicial Branch. TV resnlr is that taxpayers can pav unknowingly for trips of convenience rather than necessity, and
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