The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-08
FUTURE OF INGALLS,.
The Defeated Senator Can Earn
100000 a Year.
PETER AND HIS WHISPERS
spooner Can Earn $4,000 Year-How
Frank Carpenter Rebuked the Con-
tenptible Littler.

Frank Carpenter Rebuked the Con-
tenaptible Littler.
WASHINGTON CRY. Feb. Especial Cor
respondence. THE future of Senator
ingalls, is one of the most interesting sub
jects of gossip in Washington A friend
of his told me last night that he could
make 100000 year, and when / asked
him how, he mentioned number of con-
tracts which had been offered the senator,
which showed me he was not far wrong
"Senator Ingalls, said he, .scould make
$4,000 year by his pen. He has a most
versatile mind, and he gets applications
every day from editors of magazines ask
ing for contributions Some of these let
tiers inclose checks with the amount left
blank, and with request that he tix his
own price and fill in the check in payment
for the article if he will only write it. He
has a standing offer OF FIVE cents a word
for anything he will write for syndicate
newspaper publication, and a number of
lecture managers of the country are after
him. 1t is said that George KEENAN, makes
$50, 900 a year by talking on Siberia. ingalls,
would draw everywhere ON any subject
amount during seasons lecturing. He is
a splendid lawyer and is not bad business
man. The manuscript of his novel was
burned up in the Ire which consumed his
dwelling and his library year ago or so,
and it may be that he will take this up
and re-write it. 1t was splendid story
and would undoubtedly have paid well.
Senator ingalls, would draw better as a
lot Al - -
country. He has made few general cam
paign speeches and he has never carted
himself around from state to state as
prize-show politician during presidential
campaigns. He would be a new attraction
and his lectures would be such that he
could work the same towns over and over
again.
Senator ingalls, successor promises to be
quite as picturesque character, as far as
his personal appearance is concerned, as
ingalls, himself. He is six feet tall,
eighteen inches across the shoulders and
he has beard about two feet long. His
hair grows down Oh his forehead, so am
told, to within one inch from his eyebrows
and he has lean, lank frame which
makes you think of a skeleton in clothes.
His head is as queer i'll shape as that of
ingalls,, and Ingalls, head is the most,
curiousiy shaped one have ever seen. 1t
is narrow at the front and wide at the
back. The hair comes low on the fore
head. 1t is cut short, and is of a
rich iron-gray. ingalls,, however, is upon
the whole line looking man and he has
distinguished air which is not the case
with Judge PETER, who looks more like
hoosier or broken down preacher and
who was, am told, getting twenty-five
dollars week as an editorial writer at the
time of his election. He will bring lot
of new isms to the Senate and will, I
venture, be surprised at the small impress
sion he makes.
saw Senator John C. Spooner on the
street this afternoon. He very much re-
grets the political necessities which pre-
vent his return and he has a lingering
hope that he will get back here at the next
senatorial election. He has been saving
some money within the past few years and
is worth, it is said, enough
to keep him, provided he lives
plainly. He can make 1000
year at the law, and was told the other
day that he was offered this amount if he
would take a position with certain rail-
way which has its headquarters at Chicago.
He refused on the grounds that he did not
want to leave Wisconsin, and if certain
business interests in which he is interested
with other senators do not turn out well
he will probably be found practicing law
in Milwaukee. He will never be happy
until he gets back into public life. He has
had taste OF notoriety and of the toady-
ism which surrounds the great men here;
and he will pine for it until he gets full
meal of it again. He is a man of ability,
and he may succeed in his ambitions.
Senator Spooner has no mean competitor,
however, in x-Postmaster-General Villas,
who has been elected for the next six
years to take his place. Villas is as cold as
q wedge in December, and he is as sharp
as the tack which sits with point upwards
incognitio on your bedroom door after
housekeeping. He has had the education
in party management and the manipu-
lation of political wires which go with the
great postoffice department, and the defeat
which he received with Cleveland ct the
last presidential election has probably re-
duced the swelling which his enemies
charge was going on inside of his
Uranium through the prominent position
which he held here. When Villas first came
to Washington, he had what is called a
big head. He thought that because he
was member of the cabinet he had lodg-
ings among the clouds, but he soon learned
that the only way to succeed was by diplo-
macy, and by the time be left he was as
sauve and polite as an office-seeker. He is
a man of remarkable ability and he can
make an eloquent speech upon occasion.
He has a wonderful analytical mind and
he understands how TO get the meat out of
a subject and to serve it up in such a man
ner as will suit the palates and under
standings OF those he is talking to. He is
about as good lawyer as John Spooner
and he is fully as we'll educated man.
He has q library of about 5000 volumes
and he reads Virgil in the original for
amusement. He understands the French
and the German, and his favor
tie novelists are George Eliot and
Charles Dickens. Senator Villas is well-to-
do now He was making about $1,000
year when he was chosen 10 take place
in Cleveiand's cabinet, and he has the
money-making sense inherited from his
Yankee ancestors and developed by the
atmosphere of the pushing Northwest. He
made big hit during the time he was
here at Washington in the Gogebic iron
region along Lake Superior. He had
bought some lands here years ago, before
the mines were discovered, on account of
the timber, intending TO keep them tor his
children. The iron made them immensely
valuable, and just how much he is worth
he himself only knows. When Cleveland
was making his last campaign, Villas had