Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-16

| nateiy his remarks are seldom heard in the
galleries when he makes a speech on the floor
| OF the House, because of the peculiar qualities
of his voice and his indistinct enunciation.
His long experience in public life, the keen
| eve with which he has observed Things during
his public career and the philosophical thought
| which he has given 10 all subjects relating to
| government make his conversation extremely
interesting. especially when he is talking with
! out reserve and giving expression to his inner
most thoughts. When he gets interested in a
subject he discourses upon it with considerable
nervous energy. passing from one thought to
another and through all the branches of the
subject with remarkable fuency. Always
| while talking on such occasions he walks back
and forth about the room, giving a peculiar
emphasis to his words at every turn in his per-
ambulation.
| HOLMAN AND CANNON.
| ASrAR reporter had talk of an hours dura-
| ton with him the other day. in which reminis-
cence and prediction were blended in way to
both interest and inform. Holman AMI Can1cn
arc different sorts of economists, besides diff
| fering in the degree of their enthusiasm, but
| they have sort of kindred feeling and are
| rather fond of each other. The reporter has
| talked with the two of them together in the ap-
preparations committee room. They were the
| only legislators in the dusty and deserted Cap
| itol building. and had come there to attend to
I one or two small matters yet remaining 10 be
| looked after before leaving for the long sum-
| mer recess.
The conversation started with reference to
the future of some of the members who have
| not been elected to the next House and from
| that drifted into a more formal interview. 1t
was remarked by Mr. Cannon that a certain ex-
member was moderately well off, worth n hum
dred or -wo thousand
why said the Indiana economist THAT is
rich. L do not see what any man could want
with more than hundred thousand dollars.
do not want that much. II / could have just
as much money as | would ask for l would take
no more than forty thousand: that would be a
nice fortune to leave for ones family. With as
much would not think il necessary to do any,
| thing for the rest of my life. More would be a
burden and q source of annoyance"
WHAT 100000 COULD DO.
''Pshaw." said Cannon banteringly, ''if you
had zoo 900 think of all You could do with it.
and it would not be enough. After you had
| given few dinner parties each month. when
you had a saddle horse for yourself, nice quiet
| team and carriage for your wife TO drive about
with and IL pair OF steady horses for your own
Use to "a coupe, to take You to and from the
| Capitol. YOU would soon see that 800 900 was
very little money. For my part if could have
an income of fifty thousand year on per
cent bonds, so as to have sure thing, l should
| be satisfied"
mo, no." replied Mr.. Holman, waving his
hand as If to ward off temptation and still
| speaking seriously, though with evident APP
probation of the bantering spirit in which the
other spoke, Il would not have it. The height
OF NV ambition is to have one horse and a
buggy to drive about with. If could afford
that L should not want any grand eauipage
What are the hundreds of other people who
have to toll and struggle for enough bread to
eat going to do if single individuals hold large
fortunes of upward OF 100000 Every one
ambitious for wealth should think of that.
The prayer 4 want neither poverty nor
wealth. lS one that should be on every mans
i, Pph. poverit .,i - u.'u unii,s' uui l
sireJ' Comfort il enonyb I think Sometimes
of how the public men OF fifty wears ago lived
very simply and at small expense-and remenl-
Der that they we're as comfortable and as con-
tented any of today are. When the salary
of u Congressman was but SO 900 a year lived
as well and was as happy as L now am on IS, 900.
We lived near the Capitol building. Nearly all
the men in Congress lived in this neighbOrhood
then-all along Missouri avenue and I'd street
and Sd street; all about where none of them
will live now. Public men then lived economic
ally"
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mo. Webster was not philosopher. He was
a peculiar man and his case was exceptional
He was a man who would borrow money to
| meet some pressing demand and before he got
home with II would give it to some one whom
| he met in distress, forgetting the object for
which he borrowedit. lhold that there is greater
happiness and comfort in simplicity of living
| Ii Is now raised TO Il more expensive scale and
! all feel it. Our salaries today do not seem
20 go far as did the smaller salaries of earlier
/ days.
| HOLMAN WANTS A FARM.
| ..It has long been an idea with me To have n
| g, -. g., ,,,o,, r., -. ~ 7
| ia," sei h"- III 'n', 'i''' h"'e' "hieh
| inherited from my father, a hundred acres
| Early in the ffties l went TO Iowa and took up
a farm of $40 acres with land warrants, intend
| ing to some time make q home of it. But soon
| all my plans as to going west TO live, held
that farm, paying taxes on it. with the idea
that some day it might increase in value, until
/ ter years ago, when l sold il for 50 an acre.
| Soon after sold it coal WAS discovered on it
| and a mine is operated there now. the ROYALTY
/ from which, If I had it. would make me as large
| an income as i would want"
| The conversation drifted on to matters re-
lating to the Fifty-first Congress. What do
you think of this Congress?" asked.
! Hoty,N's rpE. OF THE LAST coScprss
1T was the worst in the history of the CONN
try WAS his PROMPT reply. ..Yes. mean il
| II was had in its method, and in all ia spr-
ropndings. and. worst of all. il has made :
precedent which will likely have bad infiu-
I tba II. l.