Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
where he used to practice law before he was

where he used to practice law before he was
elected to Congress.
Fully one-haIf of the defeated Congress
men are lawyers and many of them had big
practices before they were elected. This
was the case with La Toilette, of Wiscon-
sin, who had law Office at Madison, which
by the way he has kept open during his six
wears in Congress. He is little sawed-of
fellow with
A Big Voice and Big Brain
and he can go back to a $4,000 law bust
ness and make it grow. He is only SO years
old and has already enough to Keep him
comfortably. One of his investments is a
horse ranch in Dakota upon which he has
S25, 900 worth Of stock and where he breeds
some very good horses.
Another horse-loving and horse-raising
Congressman is George Dorsey, of Nebraska,
who raises fine trotting stock and who vies
with Senators Stockbridge and Stanford as
an authority on good horse-fesh. Dorsey
will now devote himself to mis- horse ranch
and to his banking and let his district be
run by an Alliance successor.
Ben Butterworth will practice law. either
before or after he gets through with his
work on the Worlds Fair. His present
office pays him more than twice what he
u
thing at patent law when he begins to prac-
tice. He was, you know, Commissioner of
Patents. and he Will probably do as we'll as
e1-Commissioner of Pensions Dudley, who
1 am told is taking things very easy and is
making $4,000 year. Butterworth is not
rich, and his retirement from Congress was
voluntary.
Two Ambitious Buckeyes.
Judge Thompson, of Ohio, will practice
law at Portsmouth. and General Charles
Grosvenor will probably resume his practice
at the little town OF Athens, o. Both are
fond o: Washington life, and they will come
back as soon as they get chance. A num-
ber of e1-statesmen of every Congress settle
down in Washington to practice law. When
they lose the grapes of Office they turn up
their noses and say they are sour, but I
notice they are very glad to get them when
ever they have second chance.
This seems to be the case with Judge
Payson. of Illinois. I rode down from the
Capitol with him the other day in one of the
red herdics which take you all over Wash
ington for a nickel and during the ride I
told him that 1 had heard that he intended
to give up politics and settle down to the
practice of the law in Washington. He re-
piled that he was tired of political life and
that he was glad he was not going back into
it. 81 have" said he, ''enough money
safely invested to keep me comfortably for
the rest of my days, and I have bought
couple of lots in Washington. on Massa-
chusetts avenue, between Eleventh and
Thirteenth streets and will build me house
and live here"
Changed Front Within an Hour.
This talk I had in the afternoon. That
evening the Judge without his knowledge
and without his anticipation was brought
forth as a candidate for the United States
Senatorship, and the next morning saw an
interview with Judge Payson given within
an hour of the above talk in which he said
he would of course be glad to get the nomi-
nation and expressing no objection what
ever to resuming political labors for six
years to come.
The Hon. j. G. Cannon will 60 back to his
law and his banking. He is well-to-do
though not wealthy, and he has the money
making bent. heard him once say that he
might have been a rich man if he had kept
out of Congress, and it may be that his de-
feat will make him a millionaire. Cooper,
of Ohio, will practice law at home. Baker,
of New York, Will build house in Wash
ington and will, engag, in banking here.
General Bob Kenned. will 60 back TO Ohio
and the law. McComas, of Maryland, will
do likewise, and he will have time to recon-
slider his action on the elections bill. Nc
Comas is a Republican, but I understand
that he
Married Into Democratic Family
which has great influence in his district.
His father-in-law. 90 the story goes, has, up
to tha last election, gone in with all his
might for McComas, but McComas angered
him in his voting and speaking for the
force bill, and the old man kicked, and the
result was the young man got left. He was
a bright young man and Washington is
sorry to lose him.
Funston, the only one of the Kansas Con-
gressmen who was reelected, will come back
here. Funston, by the way, is frst-class
He saw the way the Alliance
people were running the State and he wrote
a letter to the farmers of his district telling
them that the politicians were against him.
and that he was their friend. He had a
little farm and he posed as the farmers can
didate. He wrote that the time had come
when the farmers of the country must stand
together, and the result was that the farmers
voted for him and he is sent back. He is
politician for all that politics has to give.
Representative Niedringhaus will 60 back
TO making tin in St. Louis. He is rich
and does not like political lire
Langston, the colored member, will 60 back
TO Petersburg and try to come back here at
another Congress. He is a politician pure
and simple and he aspires to control Vir-
ginia, Notwithstanding Malone.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
NEW YORK's COCKTAIL KING.