If you read the entire sentence...

...he has spent two terms in the Legislature of the State, where he has done yeoman service for the city.

Please note the phrase yeoman service. What does a yeoman do? Would the city pay him a high salary for the yeoman service he rendered?

By the way, the salary for a congressman is capped. Isn't it the tax payers' money?

 

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• "yeoman service" means 卓越的贡献； 出色的工作 -小钊- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2013 postreply 12:46:00

• Look up an English dictionary -SanGabriel- ♀ (173 bytes) () 07/21/2013 postreply 15:14:49

• should be “look it up in a dictionary"; btw, not sure what you m -小钊- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/22/2013 postreply 01:04:50

• You didn't get it -SanGabriel- ♀ (349 bytes) () 07/22/2013 postreply 11:47:17

• Did you get the link inside my post two stairs up? -SanGabriel- ♀ (143 bytes) () 07/22/2013 postreply 12:14:04