The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-02

he has the handling of the vast Sharon
estate. Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan,
is rich-a millionaire.
Senators Teller, of Colorado, Turpie, of
Indiana, Vance of North, Carolina, Vest, of
Missouri, Voorhees, of Indiana, and Wal
thai of Mississippi, are all poor. Senator
Teller likes to relate the story of how he
once narrowly escaped being rich. A friend
wanted MIN TO go in on the purchase of the
Robert E. Lee mine at Leadville. The
price was 800, 000 ''But | have no money!"
said Senator Teller ''Never mind" an
swered his friend, ''they don't want the
money for ninety days, and we can take it
out of the mine before that time. Ii we
don't, / will pay your share and take your
note for it," Senator Teller did not go in,
so his friend took in another poor man.
l n two year that man cleared over 5000,
000 over everything. "But them" the Sen
ator adds philosophically, sit is probably
better that l did not so in. Ny two boys
will probably make their way in the world
a great deal better as a poor mans sons
than they would as sons of a millionaire -
Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, was in
bad strait about the time he was elected,
but his affairs are now much better, and he
may once more be called rich man,
though nowhere near the millionaire he
once was.
Senator Wilson, of Maryland, has but
little. Senator Wilson, of Iowa, has some
property, but not much.
Senator Wolcott will have to make money
very East ii he is ever to become wealthy,
for he is the embodiment of generosity and
recklessness. He is good lawyer and has
plenty of practice when at home, but he
spends all he makes and more, too, for his
brother frequently chips in, it is said. AS
an Illustration of how he manages to do it,
this story has been told to me: Senator
Wolcott won good wad of money on some
races in New York, and having cashed his
| pool tickets went to his hotel, where he
called all the porters and walters into a
room, flung the money on table and said /:
''Boys, pick out all the soiled and torn
money there and give the rest to me-"
For the purpose of recapitulation it is
convenient to separate the Senators into
four classes the millionaires, the rich
men, the men in comfortable circumstances
and the poor men, Now, of the eighty
four Senators there are ten, possibly
eleven, who belong to the millionaire class.
Of the class of rich men-that is, those
who are not ponderously wealthy, but who
are more than moderately well off-there
are fifteen or sixteen. OF the class of men
who do not rely utterly on their salaries,
but have a little something saved up, there
are twenty eight, while of the positively
poor men who have practically nothing
but their salaries to 1--we on there are
| thirty.
Whatever the tendency OF the tines
may be, the millionaires are at present a
long way from controlling the United
States Senate. They are not there in any
such numbers as the people are led to sup
pose they are, and in so far as influence in
the body is, concerned, the leaders are, al
most to the man, of the last-named two
classes-the poor and the moderately we'll
off men. Senator Sherman is the only
millionaire who can be named as leader
in the Senate, and he leads by brain power,
not by the power of his money.
WILLIS b. HAWKINS.