Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-21
RICHES in THE SENATE.
Very Few Senators Are Stliiensires or
Even Ricg Ksn-A MIsccrcsp
ton Corrected.
& Lat that Shows shat iha wealth Of that
BODY Has Been Wy Greatly
Exaggerated.


fashionable to auuse the Senate by calling
it the "AmeIican House Ct Lords" and
to arraign Senator'S as miiionairee, mos;
Of whom bought their way 20 taeir seats,
that Il is now the general impression that
these conditions IF opulence and exclu.
siyeoes5 pFevsii 10 such sn extent as to
impair the usefulness Of that boay and "a
reflect more or less GiehQpor on It's mem.
bers.
0Ge 0aY this week, meeting Senator
EVarls ard Senator Voorhees, !Utchiug n
- the Senate restaurant, | called their at
teDtl0n TO the prevailing Impression, and
inquired il the American S.Date was real.
j q body of nilH0nsires sad the cresturee
Of corporations.
"Miilionaires! :" exclaimed Nj. Voor,
hees, with sniff II Indignation. 81
don't bejieve that there is q national leg
isls-ure IL TIC world whose man 5ers
possess less mouET"
"House Of Lords" echoed Mr.. E7arts.
"EVerY Senator represents the people Of
L cefuise, organized section of the re-
pubic, while the House OF Lords repre-
senls nothing but proscTiptlOn-tbe Ell
tail cf 2n hereditary sristocTdcy.n
The next day called on Senator H.
gals Who, as presiding officer OF the
Senate, speaks to certain extent Official
~. al cannot understand" said ne,
"wby it is that The newspapers of the
C0untry represent the Senate as compos,
ed + railroad attorneys and 'magnateg. ;
The charge might Just about as we'll DE
brought against the Evangelical Alliance.
Why don't you inquire into this matter
and tell the truth about it?"
Yesterday they showed me a curious
document st the White House, bond
which the President had just signed for
his steward-probably the first bond
sigaed by President TO enable the pur-
vs}pT II the Executive Mansion to enter
on his duties. 1t vas all carefully filed
n Mr.. CIevelErd's delicate and rather
dainty HARD, and in it he has stated, In
non -commiLtal terms, that his real estate
in the District OF Columbis was worth
"m0re than $50, 000' and his personal
property "more than $4,000" So the
President is worth "more than" $4,000
IN Washington, rot counting bis Albany
and Buffalo investments and Mrs. CIeve-
lands real estate in Omaha.
Let Us take the states IN order Of geo.
graphical sequence. Maine: FRYE is q
poor mzn, dependent On his salary for his
support.
Hale oppOrtuuely married Zach Chand-
ler'S daughter, snd with her won about
$3.50, 600. Now he about holds his own.
CbcLd lRr is 6 man OF moderate means,
worth perhaps $50 000.
Vermont: Edmunds has always been
industrious and thrifty, seldom declining
a big 9 offered 10 him rs lawyer. He
is corporation attorney, snd probably
worth 100000 His besuUfi1l house has
been said 10 have separate staircase Tor
his dog 30 90 Up and dorm from floor TO
floor.
Merrill, toe, is well fixed. He got his
money ia t0nsst tr8de, having been
merchant. Before he came TO the Senate
he was independent, sid has since accu-
mulated by the gradual sccretions of
frugal msn.
Massachusetts,: Hosr hss nothing, 1
believe, but house in Worcester, which
he has not entirely paid for, and Dawes
is understood TO be without property.
Rhode Island: Aldrich was a poor
farme. IS boy, and went into Providence
about as Dick Wilmington went in Lon
don. He began as clerk in q grocery, !
and has given full equivalent in hard |
and honest work for every dollar he owns |
is still better of, being worth $500, 900, |
which he made in cotton manufacturing.
Senator Hawiey Of Connecticut might |
be IS proud as Miss Mcbride of various
things-of his reputation for answering
Integrity, Of his splendid military record,
of mis- Puritan ancestry. He owns S
quarter Of the Hartford Courant and oil
that that implies, aud gets, 1 believe,
$1,000 year for serving the American
EXchange In Europe in the capacity of
president. He il sists that there are good
many things more va liable than money.
Plat Is fixed about the same way and
has scarcely 6By income except his salary.
He Is an honest snd able lawyer, but has
never saved much beyond his house in
MeTiden. He sffirms that the msl who
Is thoroughly comfortable is just as well
CT SIS if he were rich.
Ecsrts his big fees and immense pr0c-
tee, but BE has always lived stylishly
end IL not rich msn. Who has ever de-
MED his great ability?
Senator HiscoCk is probably worth one
quarter as much as EySrts.
B 9TH the New Jersey SenStors sre we'll
fixed. MCPHERSON hiss 8 handsome for
tune earned N the law and stock, and
BloGgett, twenty five years ago q New
Haven DaCbinist, became eRtapgied with
New Jersey railroads with the usual re-
suit.
Pennsylvaria-Don Cameron said in
my presenC lsst summer that his income
was "about s9o, 900 a year"-about $500
day. H. is the only man in the Senate
who Inherited wealth. QQsy is worth
500. 600, apd has made II by good ca
pscity for business.
Salisbury OF Delaware never shows
any evidences Of a fortune in Washing
ton; is probably poor.
Grey is said TO be worth S75, 600.
German of Maryland has been in Office
every year Of his life stree ne was thir
teen years old, having been then ap-
pointed page in the body Of which ne
Is now member. Meantime, however,
he has made some money In the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Compsny's
stock. He Is certainly comfortably on.
Senator Wilson is not man of much
property.
VirgiDis-Dsniel lives in house be-
longing to his wife,
Rlddleberger is good deal worse of
than inst, and hiss nothing.
Ransom CT North Carolina, rhymes
with handsome, which he is, but he also
rhymes with impecuuious.
YsrCe's wife had money, enabling him |
to buy house here in Washington. His
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