Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-07-23
IN POOR QUARTERS.
Some Legislators Who Gan Not
Justly Be Termed Crossuscs.
Senators and Representatives, Who saTe
Most of Their Salaries By Living In .
Very Cheap sttie-A Rather
Cnromantic Statement,

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SO much has been written about the
millionaires in the Senate chamber that
there is popular impression that all Sem.
/ atcrs can write their checks for a million
or more. Yet there are some very poor
men in the noCth end of the Capitol. One
OF these is Senator Whitihorne, of Tennes- :,
see, Who succeeded Judge Jackson while
| ago. AIR. Whitthorns is literally not
worth dollar. At the time OF hts APP
| polntment by Governor Bate he had Just
settled up his, financial affairs and found
himself nearly seventy five thousand dol
lars in debt, with assets consisting of his
Old homestead and something like seven
hundred acres of land, which ia worth In
all less than half tho amount Of his in
debtedneSs. He accepted the appointment
as Senator more on account of the salary
attached than for the honor of the thing.
When he came to Washington his family
were left at home because he could not
stand the expense of keeping them here.
de has one little room at the Ebbitt
House, up on the fifth floor, and lives at
The lowest rates the hotel can give OF
course no carriage carries him to the Cap
ltol, nor yet hcrdic. The three cent cars
from the Treasury to the Capitol receive
oil the money he lays out for vehicles.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, Is
also poor man, dependent for support
on his 5000 q year from the Govern
ment. His family likewise spend the Con.
gressional year at their country home,
while the Senator puts up cheaply at ths
Metropclit II. He gave up a fine law
practice when he came here, and. now he
says the Legislature OF North Carol ina
must keep him in tho Senate for life or
support him at the public expense, rs he
could never repair his lost practice. Mr..
Ransom draws part of his salary every
two wecks, and in advance, too.
Coke of TeXas was deeply in debt when
he was first elected to the Senate, and IS
not clear Of it yet by any means. He lives
at common boarding house on Sixth
street and pays just six dollars week for
his board. He is never seen In society or
at any place where an expenditure of
money is necessary.
Wade Hamilton has no other source of
income than his salary, and, consequently,
can not keep his family with him. A small
bedroom at the Metropolitan Hotel is the
out of the Senate chamber. At his home
in Columbia, $. c., he owns respectable
two-story brick house, where he has lived
since the war.
Senator Riddleberger, has, besides his
salary, the revenue from 4 country weekly
in Woodstock, Va. He has rooms at the
Arlington, the highest priced hotel in the
city. He can i'll afford the cost, Tut Ma
hf.fa nctr =
is determined not to be outdons by his col
league.
Senator Wilson, of Maryland, has only
his salary to live on. Call, of Florida, has
house or two at Jacksonville. George,
of Mississippi, rents tie dwelling he lives
in when at his home in Jackson. Keone!
Of West Virginia, has rooms uptown and
eats at restaurant In fact, all the South.
ern Senators except Gibson and Eustis. of
Louisiana, German, of Maryland, Curu-
den, of West Virginia and Jones, of Ar
kansas have little more than their salaries
to support them.
In the House the poor men are in n largo
majority. Tho Speaker himself has
nothing beyond the 5000 he draws frou.
tho Government yearly. Mills, of Texas.
is trying 10 pay Off with his salary the ex- :
penses of disastrous cattle enterprise i'm
which he took part and which left him in
debt to the amount of Slc001o. The house
IN which he has room on q street Is oc-
cupied principally by printers in the Cor
ernment Printing Office. Truman Merri
man, late of the New York San. fyad
on an EDITORS salary before ho
came TO Congress, so it mig ahs
be easily concluded that he hns
amassed no considerable wealth The four
recognized leaders Of thc House arc r,ea
OF little means. Reed drew two thousand
dollars year as city solicitor of Portland,
Me-, until he SO: an added three thourara
dcllars as Representative in Congress-.
he and his wife have two small rooms in
the Hamilton Flats, with brick
court as q window view. Frank Hiscock
is little better OF, though he can not
afford to rent house horc. Randall has
boen living in Washington the last twcn-
ty-two years on his salary. He expects
to DC rich some day, however, cs he is
financially interested in the empryo Keely
motor, which, he confidently anticipates,
will revolutionize locomotiou. Nor
rison has whole parlor to himself at
Wizards, but his means do not Justify
taking a house. Indeed, there are verv
few members who can support respect
able establishment in the fash ionable pa Q
of town. Those who have residences OF
their own live east of the Capitol, or be-
tween Second and Thirteenth streets west.
Only the millionaire can enter the precious
region between Fourteenth and Fifteenth,
street northwest and Lafayette Square
and the boundary.