Show ffl THE UPPER HOUSE There are More Poor Senators Than Rich Ones i THE FINANCIAL STANDING r There are Ten MillionairesFifteen are Well of Twenty fight Fairly Well to do Thirty Poor WASHINGTON D C Oct 29 1S90 Special correspondence of THE HERALD It has become a very common practice among those pessimists who arc always expecting ex-pecting to see the country go to the dogs those worst of all pessimists who never tire of telling us how much better and purer and nobler the fathers used to bo than the sons are nowto say that the Senate has become a mere body of millionaires million-aires that money is the ruling power in senatorial elections and that it governs the actions of the Senate This is a slander and dangerous one since it tends toward the destruction of all patriotism and becomes be-comes an open challenge that the American people are through their chosen representatives represen-tatives all along the line a dishonest and dishonorable lot i A The best way to refute this slander is to call the roll of the Senate and see how many of its members can answer to the title of millionaire for if money be the controlling power there is not a Senator who in a six years term might not sell himself for enough to make him eligible to the title Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island is a merchant pretty well off though by no means a millionaire He might retire and live upon what he has I suppose so we may set him down as a ric i man Senator Allen of Washington is a young and active lawyer with a bent lor moneymaking money-making He probably will be rich someday some-day but at present he is only started in that direction Senator Allison of Iowa is worth between be-tween 10000 and 50000 If he should turn it all into money and set out to buy a legislature ho would have to look about for f a pretty cheap one I dont know any tbingabout the financial condition of Senator Harbour of Virginia and Idont know anybody who does If he were a millionaire it would prooablybe known to nearly everybody around here for he lives in Alexandria six or eight miles down the Potomac from Washington ands very rich man in that povertystricken town would stand out among his neighbors like an ulcerated tooth Senator Bate of Tennessee is a poor man who lives in TI very modest way in i Washington and relies on his salary to pay the bills Senator Berry of Arkansas is poorer than Jobs oft turkey If somebody had a job lot of damacfHl ecisiatures that he wanted to set at fifty dollars a dozen Sen atcr Bury couldnt bid in a tenyearold pane Senator Blickbnrn of Kentucky might in time become n rich rnun if he did not have to cat and to sleep under a roof But + j4J j4Jf C iI r j 1 I I S 1ff l Ii l I f r rJ J I J 10U4S i I 5 Wti fir If rt l f 1 fEtf < r J Xt w < > lS F yt t cI I s ft G I r rs t i i + i < A fiti t J cjil > w c i a t I v j f L ljtpo51 sresTl by the time he has paid his moderate board bill he would be very poor picking for a legislator in search of a cash purchaser Senator Blair of New Hampshire is a poor man so poor that he is glad to serve as a Washington correspondent for a New York newspaper and to do the work in cadition to his many Senatorial duties with his own hand because he can not afford to pay a stenographer for such work Senator Blodgett of New Jersey is a rich man presideut of the New Jersey Central Cen-tral rtiihoad and of a bank at Long Brnnch but he hammered out his own wealth for he began his manhood thirtyeight years ago working as an apprentice in the Amos ktag locomotive works Senator Brown of Georgia who has not been hero this session and who probably will never visit Washington again is another wealthy railroad president but so farfrom wanting to buy a seat in the Senate Sen-ate he has ono that he has been trying for more tuna two years to give away He is avery a-very old and feeble man and has long desired de-sired to retire from all active life and public pub-lic responsibility but his people would not take his resignation because it is said they wanted Governor Gordon in the Senate and the governor could not appoint himself to fill the vacancy Senator Butler of South Carolina is a poor man who spends all he makes Senator Call of Florida spends more than he makes Some time ago he borrowed bor-rowed money and builthere a modest house to live in but tne interest became so burdensome bur-densome he has been trying ever since to sell out Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania is all that a member of the house of lords is supposed sup-posed to berich aristocratic and heir to his Senatorial seat Senator Carlisle of Kentucky lives on his alary Senator Casey pronounce it Cazey please of North Dakota is worth half a million and is chasing like a blue streak after the other half His bills for binding twine last year so he recently testified I am told were 1O0J0 That would tie up a considerable shear of legislators in his I state if all the stories about the purchases I made by tne Louisiana Lottery company last winter are true Senator Chandler of New Hampshire lives like a millionaire but those wno ought to know say it takes about all he cin scrape up to pay for it Some time ago he made some fat fees and purchased an ele gent home which he gave to his wife He till makes now and Wen a good haul but manages I am told to spend it all upon his living And then another thing suggests that he probably has nothing laid away for purchasing legislatures he owns two newspapers up in New Hampshire and you know that is a pretty expensive habit to fall into Senator Ccckrell of Missouri would make a poor list ac buying a legislature Not long ago he borrowed a small sum of money with which to build a little house on a cheap lot away out on R street and he lives in a manner that stamps him as a man who needs his salary about as fast as it falls due SenatorCoke of Texas owns a good deal of landmhis state A gentleman who knows S about it says that if the Senator should by any misfortune come into the possession of a little more suh land he would be poor enough to go into partnership with Lazarus Laz-arus Senator Colquitt of Georgia is in moderato mod-erato circumstances neither rich nor poor s Sedator Cullom of Illinoislet me tell you a story about him and Senator Ingalls Kansas When VicePresident Hendricks iied it became necessary to elect a president presi-dent of the Senate The olHce pays 3000 a year more than the Senatorial salary Senator Hoar of Massachusetts who is a poor man wanted tne place but Senators Teller Manderson and others said No Cullom is poorerthan Hoar lets give the I place to Cullom it looKed as if Senator I Cullom was going to be chosen when one j J L c h fr day he heard something about Senator Ingalls struggle with poverty and questioned ques-tioned him about it Yes said the Senator Sen-ator from Kansas I am poorer than you are for your children are grown and provided pro-vided for but my five youngsters are just growing up and I cannot raise money enough to educate them as I wish to Senator Ingalls frankly asked for the office of-fice because he needed the salary and Senator I Sena-tor Cullom went at once to his friends say ing he had found a man poorer than himself him-self Senator Ingalls was elected and still holds the office though the additional salary sal-ary does not go with it now that there is a vicepresident s < a fi ln t1 v = vF SY F I I iCLa t Senator Daniels of Virginia is by no means a rich man His most fruitful source of income after his Senatorial salary is the sale of the well known law books of which he is the author but that is not enough ever to make him rich Senator Davis of Minnesota has nothing laid away Senator Dawes of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts is a very poor man I do not know about Senator Dixon but I understand under-stand he is only moderately well off Senator Sen-ator Dolph of Oregon was once a rich mon but suffered a severe loss in the recent re-cent failure of an enterprise in which he was a heavy stockholder Senator Ed munds makes some enormous fees in his practice as an attorney and may be set down as a rich man but he will never have to think about buying a seat in the Senate until Vermont goes out of the union Senator Sen-ator Evarts has a capital law practice but it is said he lives up to his income Senator Eustis of Louisiana is well off and Senator Farwell of Illinois is a millionaire mil-lionaire Senator Faulkner of West Virginia Vir-ginia is in comfortable circumstances and Senator Frye of Maine is a man who gives no thought to moneymakingdoesnt care for a fortune and so of course has never made one Senator George is a poor man Many a department clerk lives on a much higher shelf than he does Senator Gibson of Louisiana and Gorman of Maryland are both well off Senator Gray of Delaware is in fair circumstances cir-cumstances as a result of his good law practice Senator Halo married a very wealthy lady the daughter of the late Zach Chandler Chand-ler Senator Hampton of South Carolina is a very poor man He has positively nothing noth-ing Should his salary as Senator cease ho would be in the deptns of financial dis tress Senator Harris of Tennessee though not a very rich man owns a rather profitable mule farm in Texas Senator Hawley of Connecticut who not long ago suffered some serious looses by goodnaturedly lending his name is said to be a poor man Senator Hearst of Caiifornia is as rich as mud He says he can not remember when his income was less than one thousand dollars a day He could buy three or four fresh legislatures every year if he wanted to and they were for sale Senator Higgins of Delaware has but a small stock of this worlds goods Senator Hiscock of New York has one fortune and his wife has another Senator Hoar of Massachusetts is so poor he cant afford to keep up an establishment estab-lishment in Washington and leaves his family therefore at home Senator Ingalls as I have said is very poor and very lad to get pay for the literary liter-ary work which somehow he manages to do though he is kept very busy as u Senator Senator Jones of Arkansas is poor Senator Jones of Nevada havent heard of him since this morning At that time ne was supposed to be rich He is a speculator every day in the weekeight or nine days in some weeks Like the Irish mans Flea when you put your hand on him he isnt there Some days he is up in a balloon and some days down in a well where even truth itself is said to lie but where SeuatorJones refuses to lie Senator Kenna of West Virginia has a modest little home here of his own but is not a rich man Senator McMillin of Michigan is one of the millionaires Senator Sena-tor McPherson of New Jersey may be putdown put-down as another Senator Manderson of Nebraska borrowed bor-rowed some money and erected some buildings build-ings in Omaha a few years ago and the rentals ren-tals have more than paid the interest while the value of the property has so increased as to make him fairly well off Senator Mitchell of Oregon is pretty well off and Senator Moody of South Dakota is in comfortable com-fortable circumstances Senator Morgan of Alabama is poor Senator Morrill of Vermont not nor yetis yet-is he very wealthy Senator Paddock of Nebraska has some land out there and not much else Senator Pasco of Florida has perhaps the best law practice in his state and is well off Senator Payne of Ohio is rich Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota is a moneymaker money-maker aud has done well in lands and railroad rail-road enterprises in his state Fate intended Senator Pierce of North Dakota to scratch a poor mans head and the Senator has no disposition to quarrel I with fate or with anybody else Senator Platt of Connecticut has a homo in Men den and little beside Senator Plumb of Kansas is thrifty and rich now is press ing on toward nis million Senator Power of Montana is fairly well off Senator s Pugh of Alabama is by no means rich Senator Quay of Pennsylvania is aid to be far from rich Senator Ransom of North Carolina has nothing but his salary Senator Reagan of Texas is very poor so poor that his wife was appointed as his clerk because they needed the salary Senator Sanders of Montana is moderately moder-ately well off Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin Wis-consin is rich Senator Sherman of Ohio very rich Senator Sherman makes a great deal of money by buying and selling real estate in this city He is a multimillionaire multimillion-aire I a4 + lu MRst d a + ttnrrtx t i a f reRr7t Senator Spooner of Wisconsin is well off and Senator Squire of Washington i Snot S-not a poor man Senator Stanford of California could buy legislatures as fast as they might come and still have enough left to make a pretty fair bid for a national convention if he felt so disposed He never draws his salary but gives it to his private secretary Senator Stewart of Nevada is said to be i a poor man notwithstanding the fact tha o he has the handling of the vast Sharon estate Senator Stockbridge of Michigan is richa millionaire Senators Teller of Colorado Turpie of Indiana Vance of North Carolina Vest of Missouri Voorhees of Indiana and AVal thal of Mississippi are all poor Senator Teller likes to relate the storv of how he once narrowly escaped being rich friend wanted him to go in on the purchase of the i Robert E Lee mine at Leadville The price was 90000 But I have no money said Senator Teller Never mind answered I an-swered his friend they dont want the money for ninety days and we can take it out of the mine before i hat time If we dont I will pay your share and take your note for it Senator Teller did not go in so his friend took in another poor man I n two jears that man cleared over 200 000 over everything But then the Senator I Sen-ator adds philosophically it is probably I better that I did not to in My two boys will probably make their way in the world a great deal better as a poor mans sons than they would as sons of a millionaire Senator Washburn of Minnesota was in a bad strait about the time he was elected but his affairs are now much better and ho may once more be called a rich man though nowhere near the millionaire ho once was Senator Wilson of Maryland has but little Senator Wilson of Iowa has some property but not much Senator Wolcptt will have to make money very fast if he is ever to become wealthy for he is the embodiment of generosity and recklessness He is a good lawyer and has plenty of practice when at nome but he spends all he makes and more too for his brother frequently chips in it is said As an illustration of now he manages to do it this story has been told to me Senator Woleott won a good wad of money on some races in New York and having cashed his pool tickets went to his hotel where he called all the porters and waiters into a room flung the money on a table and said Boys pick out all the soiled and torn money there and give the rest to me For the purpose of recapitulation it is convenient to separate the Senators into four classes the millionaires the rich men the men in comfortable circumstances and the poor men Now of the eighty four Senators there are ten possibly eleven who belong to the millionaire class Of the class of rich menthat is those who are not ponderously wealthy but who are more than moderately well off theio are fifteen or sixteen Of the class of men who do not rely utterly on their salaries but have a little something saved up there are twentyeight while of the positively poor men who have practically nothing but their salaries to live on mere are thirtWuateer Wuatever the tendency of the times may be the millionaires are at present along a-long way from controlling the United States Senate They are not there in any such numbers as the people are led to suppose sup-pose they are and in so far as influence in the body concerned the leaders are almost al-most to the man of the lastnamed two classesthe poor and the moderately well oft men Senator Sherman is the only fmillionaue who can bo named as a leader in the Senate and he leads by brainpower not by the power of his money VILLIS B HAWKINS |