Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-23
INHIMBLE QUARTERS.
Prominent Senators and Members who Live in
Simple Way.

Prominent senators anu 1tl1DSIo WIN blfC III
Simple Way
Perhaps the most modest liver among
the public men here is Senator Vest, of
missouri, writes Washington correspon-
cent of the Philadelphia Times Though
he is not SO poor as some OF MS col
'eoaues. be lives in one, of the meanest
,oking little houses in Washington. It
! on the very questionable Delaware
avenue. is frame building and two
stories high. Here the senator lives with
two servants His friends say that his
style of living should not be attributed TO
parsimony, but to an eccentric hatred to
living in house with other occupants
He proposes to stay where he i5 until he
is able to buy house for himself and
family, and nothing can induce him to
put up at a hotel or department. house.
In the meantime his family remain at
their Missouri home.
The leaders in both branches of CON
gress live in a com parativeIy inexpensive
style. Speaker Carlisle is poor man.
He has small suite of rooms at the Riggs
and rides in hired carriage. His family
usually here for only a small part of
the season, and he does little in the way
of entertaining.
Mr.. Morrison has a couple of rooms at
Wizards which are situated on the third
stork back and have brick courtyard for
an outlook. The great free-trade lives in
a most economical way, and, it is said,
saves half of his salary yearly. As his
whole fortune is estimated at $4,000, it
could hardly be expected that his family
should be among the leaders in the gid
ed society here.
Mr.. Randall has a house of his own, but
It is very modest one. He lives over on
Capitol hill, far from the fashionable
northwest. His little home is one of the
most comfortable at the capital, but it is
By no means adapted for entertaining on
a large scale. Mr.. Randall has a carriage
of his own, too, but the least-said about
that the better, for it is genuine
eighteenth century affair. Mr.. Randalrs
fortune is hardly greater than Morrison's.
Although he has been in congress for over
twenty years, he sadly lacks the business
tact of Senator Sherman and other
statesmen, who have beed able to save
a million or two out of @ total salary of
$1,O00,OO0.
Roger Q. Mills, the Texas leader never
has his family here and lives in a single
room on G street, whose rental is not
moro than $12 to SIS monthly. He takes
his meals at a third rate restaurant on T
street. It is said that he saves more than
$4,000 out of his salary every year. He
Is never seen on the street, except when
going to and from the capitol and is
generally regarded az man of the genus
crank.
Mr.. TOwnshend of Illinois, who is like
~ to succeed Morrison as chairman of
he ways and means committee, is anoth-
CT man who after many terms in the
house is poorer than when he entered.
He has rooms at the Riggs. All the
southern democrats in congress are poor
men, except Gen. Wheeler, Of Alabama
Most of them have their rooms at the
National.
The republican leaders are not much
better fixed. Reed, of Maine, has rooms
at the Hamilton apartment house, and
entertains in a most modest style. His
total income is about $4,000 a year
half in salary, ard the other half frGmIaw
practice. Mr.. Reed, with all his ability
and legal schrewdness, will never have
100000. While he keeps a close watch of
government expenditures, and Knows
where every dollar of the public money
goes, he gives little attention to the
course his own dollars take.
Frank Hiscock, of New York, is COM
fortably well off, but he can not afford to
take house. He puts up at the Airing
ton. and entertains in mild way. His
wife is quiet retiring woman, and goes
little into society.
Butterworth, of Ohio, has g small house
in southern park. He has q daughter,
who was last year voted the pTettiest girl
N Washington and has made some efforts
IN the social way only since her dspute.
Butterworth has only the results of his
labor to subsist on,
Mckinley, of Ohio lives at the Ebbitt,
IN pair of rooms on the fifth floor. He
is almost unknown in society.
The senators, generally live IN better
style, but some of them are quite poor
men. Whitthorne, of Tennessee, has
lot dollar, and is over hundred
thousand in debt. He has one little room
at the Ebbitt, and can not afford to bring
his family to Washington.
Ransom, Cf North Carolina. is worth
nothing, and usually draws part of his
salary every few weeks. Hampton, of
South Carolina, owns a two-story brick
asidence at Columbia, and his total
wealth is estimated at $4,000. He has
one room at the Metropolitan and leaves
his family at home.
Pugs, of Alabama, is never seen in So
ciety. Coke, of Texas, lives in a third
lass hotel on E Street Wilson, OF Mary
and, has two modest room on n street,
Rlddlebeger, of Virginia, saying at the
Arlington. The rest of the southern sena-
ors, excepting Mohone, Gibson, Brown,
nd Camden, are also poor men and live
eheaply.
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