| Show THE E NATIONS EX Congress Perturbed With Wih the Question of What to Do Queston With Them f PENSION PENSON IDEA IEA NOT POPULAR t js Think Most Mt Presidents IIno 1 Had 1 n ot Or i rOI Making Washington Jan Jun 8 Thero d seem to tu bo be any powerful movement on Oil the tho part p i t ot of congressmen to accept tho tue suggestion of Grover Cleveland ll that tho time government ought to appropriate money muney enough to POll pen pension sion slon of or tho ho United States Th The lot of representatives Is com corn composed composed posed ot men maim ell who ho cling tena tenaciously to time the opinion that If a it I citizen of or this country gets to bo be hell head of oC tho the nation ho 10 ought to bo ho h able ablo to 10 worry worly along for the Ibo rest reat of ot his hil days with what ho lie had before ho lie went welt to 10 tho thu House ninth and what conies comes to him through the tue prominence of oC tho timo position held by b him bin Mr Cleveland admits that he hc Is well wel financially runts a n fact pretty well understood here here In his lila term lie ho lund had lt 1 William C Whit Whitney ney ne 11 mis IH secretary se of tho the navy Whit Whitney ney 1101 nC was a ft 1 shrewd trader lder and could give Ie pointers of value alue After serving his 1115 term Mr 1 Cleveland Invested In real estate His name nale was worth a it great deal eal to 10 tho the syndicate which de tIe developed developed a suburb of Washington Tho The In iii tho the deal were lib liberal Jb oral eral In tho divisions allowing the tho for former or ormer mer mner head wn of ot tho the nation naton to make mooney money mony from In veal men tu and thero thelo teas IS certainly nothing wrong In his hla putting puling his hil ready Ia y cash where It Il would woul bring handsome hon solo returns ADVANTAGES OF OFFICIAL POSITIONS Tho rIte late laic Secretary dan Lament Lamont was wa comparatively poor when ho lie camo conic to Washington In 1885 as President Clove Cleve lands hands private secretary In Iii a It dozen years Curs ho he managed to scrape together I enough property to leave leavo an nn estate that I probated something over oer Tho The Into Senator Seln tor Vance Vall eo of or North Car saint said a Li very few years er before hits his I I 1 bath numerous chances to 10 Inako real roah estate Investments In Wash Washington ington that would made mo tao and wul my toy family rich although they were entirely legitimate honest t vent von turca tures l rea that in no imo 10 way Involved mo Pie na as nan I asa I retrained refrained from froni n a member of 1 taking advantage of or tho th opportunities The Tho people of my lay Iato would never have hn Ve understood a 1 hOW oJ Zob Zeb Anneo Vanco became wealthy thY without yielding to 10 I Il Ii Illegitimate legitimate temptations and In him conse consequence I quence I shall have havo little Itlo to leave l ac WINDOM AND QUAY QUAY i Time The lute lato William Windom of or i BOtn sota was defeated for tOI the senate s nato be bo because IS cause ho camo Caine to Washington rather poor and during his first term terni tell erected a fine residence Ills Js political rivals 1 had ho struck oft of oh hundreds of at thousands ot or copies of o what the they called caled his pain paia residence anti and distributed tho the pho pimo photographs over oer thai tho th state Sonic SOle years ago time tho charge chargo was made that ninny senators were speculating In sugar augar and other materially by a n tariff bill bi then pending In Congress Wholesale denials wore wor made mado ml o and there thero was teas US nn In tit investigation by h n a n special committee Tho The lato late Senator Quay of ot Pennsylvania who ho wan wait I on time tho list no bones bOlos of the fact that ho was wan plunging in Id h sugar and IHl virtually asked the question que What tire aro you going gOI to 10 do o about It LITERARY WORK wom AND LECTURES Many lW congressmen are really rea mean menu enough to say su that our I can moke a it comfortable living by writing for or what called the tho leading magazines of ot this country and Great Britain They The charge chorgo that the owner and amid editors e of most of th these so publications tOn accept principally the manu manuscripts manuscripts scripts ot of people who are either fa to famous Camous Infamous or wedded to some sort ot or modern motTern fad Twelve years ago ngo William Jennings Bryan ban ha nothing to of In tile the way w of property except a I mortgaged residence at Lincoln His ills Income ns as 0 n a newspaper writer was wa al approximately 2000 a I year yeal Now No he lie hols Is ranked us as lS Otto ono of oC time the rich lell men of ot the tho country His Ills Il omo from roam lectures Is not riot less hess than a u year car Facts Files like 10 these related will wi tend to make the t average member of ot the thc ot of representatives shako his head he many Inon times when asked aske to vote ote for tor a bill bi to enable our to live Ilvo Ivo like Ito European potentates Already predictions pre are heard hero bore that when hen Roosevelt quits the tho White magazine owners will wi otter offer ofer enormous puma for any articles expected to total ho lie may write They rhey rh arc are fall fail tal over each other to secure his copy A GREAT GAIN FOR OR NEVADA NEADA Senator Nixon ot of Nevada levo l states In inthe tho the Congressional Directory that ho ito was born bol In California commenced life Iro ns us a 1 telegraph operator and anc re rc removed moved mOed to 10 Nevada to grow up with will that country Senator Flint of ot Cull Cali California Cul fornia In an after dinner speech hero imera heron n tho time oUter oilier night humorously that Nixon WM born In II ti a box factors tumid and Ild Jt it was wan a 1 groat day for f I when California let hot him out ou ot ht t ii bounds LAUGH MAY MAX 1310 D TURNED A hilt bill bi has haR been becI Introduced In lii the tit house hol for fer tho tim adoption nt ilL tint tho dirigible flying as us nn nil lt aerial defense for foi or the tho and navy It I Is actually pr pi posed to II have havo In the tear r department uli ati ul aeronautic branch Tho The Inon who ho thinks ho has hs lilt hit hi the Iho right thing Is a Virginian by name Into Waller Darren People lire are lre laughing nt ut him light now hut hilt ho he I his friends predict that it It will wi not bo be many years yeats before they arc ashamed of ot themselves |
