Show ay ab ST e A H round betti feT TI da then rby I 1 tal B i 0 belam dellda ail m information and goss gossip picked up here anil there in ashington Ls washington hington other professions of our congressmen t 50 0 0 O 02 00 ASHINGTON what elso else are congressmen W washington besides congressmen if they aro are not in congress drawing s salary alary from a grateful people what would they bo be doing for it living when the official questioner went around and asked the sixtieth congress what KB its business was when it 66 members of tho the senate and lower house 15 of ono one and 41 of the other replied point blank that they were public officials that Is to say they admitted that it if they were not serving their country as congressmen they would nevertheless insist upon serving their country presumably at a salary in some other capacity notable in the public official list aro arc senator jeff davis of arkansas du pont of delaware cullom of illinois allison of iowa crane 0 massachusetts bourne of oregon and knox of pennsylvania besides speaker cannon of the house of course in both houses tho the law years far outnumber everybody else put together there are aie 64 professed lawyers in the senate alone and no less lesa than more in the house just 11 less than an even all together in this category reads the hames ono one has heard before senators teller and dacon bacon heyburn borah hopkins hemenway and beveridge Deverl dge frye nelson depow depew la follette foraker and dick penrose culberson and dalley in the house the lawyers are legion with nicholas longworth hurton burton tawney de armond littlefield crumpacker overstreet and the now new york triumvirate of bourke cockran herbert parsons and sereno serene payne elbert hubbard member of congress Is also a lawyer but this one comes from sioux city iowa bankers rank in number although there are but five in the entire senate which seems like news taliaferro Talla Thila ferro of florida nixon of nevada kean of new jersey ankeny of washington and reed smoot of utah the house boasts 22 bankers making 27 in all the two senators from south caro una confess that they are farmers though that la is moro more than anybody else in the will admit these are senators latimer find and tillman thus tho the latter remains loyal to hla his pitchfork two are merchants aldrich and perkins ns buckley of connecticut says bays insurance Is hla his business lodge claims literature as a profession and platt Is labeled boldly enough president of express company warren of 1 I wyoming Is a stock balsor stephenson of wisconsin a lumberman elkins of west virginia a miner and hansbrough of north dakota admits to an editorship there are 13 farmers in the house including J adam bode nine manu facture rs four merchants four insurance men seven real estate dealers and as many lumbermen there aro are also seven editors there aro are five journalists four miners and three publishers li thero there were two planters because john sharpe williams was ono one before lie ho graduated to the upper house there Is one mining engineer one railroad constructor one fruit grower a trustee probably the only professional one in existence a build er an everyday contractor ono one lone capitalist a miller a stock ralser raiser a surveyor gurve and a tanner one says hla his occupation Is railroad and another says his Is Is stone tono there are two nurserymen nurseryman nursery men and four physicians besides hobson who la is put down as a naval constructor and champ dark clark who keeps heeps on trying to prove that he Is a lecturer now how much are they worth in money these lawyers and public officials als and merchants and insurance men and farmers who serve their country at washington every third man in the senate to la worth a million or more there are 32 millionaires in the senate and 14 in tho the house thirty two senators are worth together the 14 house millionaires are worth retired senator guggenheim Gugg la Is worth about lumberman stephenson Is worth express president platt receives 30 a year in salary alone merchant aldrich is worth do they all draw salary and every cent of perquisites they can get these 46 millionaires who are worth the stupendous sum of tho the answer Is they do |