Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-25

ell, of Oregon, has scores of gilt-edged
cases from the Northwest before the Su-
preme Court. He charges for all of them,
and does not act like Alexander H. Stephens,
who used to try the cases of his constituents
for nothing. Both Clay and Webster got
good fees for all they did, and United
States Senator once told me that Webster
used to take ees for making speeches on one
side or the other OF the bills which came be-
fore the Senate. He made lots Of money,
but saved none and was in debt all the
tire he was in Washington.
THE FEES WERE MORE MODEST.
The fees of that time were nothing in COM
parison with this, and Ben Butler and
George f. Edmunds make tens of thousands
where the statesmen of the past made one.
Hamilton made S10,0 a year on an aver
age, it is said, and William Writ thought he
was doing well when his yearly fees amount
ed to Sc, 600. Alexander Stephens got single
fees S20, 1000, and it is said that Aaron Burr
made S40,0 900 out of a single case. Roscoe
Conkliug received cash retainer of $50 600
for advocating the interests OF the Apollin-
aris Water Company before Secretary Fol
ger, and Benjamin II. Bristow received
$1,000 ior short speech on the bill organiz-
ing the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing
some years ago.
A number of ex.Cabinet ministers are
now practieing law here. Their high stand
Ing gives them a wonderful influence in the
departments and they can get immense fees
for their work before the House and Senate
committees. Ex-Secretary George Bout
well has been practcing here for some
years. Attorney General Garland has an
Office here and e1-Secretary Belknap has a
good practice. Ex-Congressmen as LAWYERS
are as many as the leaves of Valambrosa:
and ex-Senators are everywhere. Joseph E.
Mcdonald is a regular practitioner in the
Washington courts and at the Capitol
Jeremiah Wilson, once a member from In
diana, makes $4,000 year as a Washing
ton lawyer, and the fees of Judge Shella-
barger. who was q noted Ohio Congressman
in the sixties, amount to ten times Con-
gressman's salary. Phil. Thompson, of
Kentucky, is practicing in Washington,
and as for ex-5ureau lawyers you find them
by the dozens. / understand that Ben But
terworth will drop the improbable field OF
politics 10 go into the more profitable one OF
the law at the close OF his term, and be
could, If be would, have a bigger patent
business than anv other man in the country.
GREAT CRIMINAL LAWYER.
or the Lawyers now in the United States
Senate Dan VOORHEES, is perhaps the best in
criminal cases. OF the murderers among
his clients none have ever been hanged and
he can bring the tears to the ewes OF the
jury in any case he pleads. He defended
one of the members Of John Browns raid at
Harper's Ferry, and he gets the biggest fees
OF his kind.
Senator Spooner was making $40 900 q
year rs railroad lawyer when he was
elected, and he is said to have one of the
elearest legal minds in the United States.
Allison was known as good lawyer in Ohio
before he went to Iowa, and there are few
better lawyers in the country TODAY than
old Senator Joe Brown, Of Georgia. Brown
il . seli-made man from the ground
mp. He drove pair of steers