The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-08
STATESMEN NO MORE.
Senator's and Representatives
Whose Time Is Up.
FARwELL AND HIS BIG FARM.
Spoensr Wants 70 Succeed Sawyer
Ingslls and His Comn-Hanpsen
ana EvaYts FARMERS.

wAsH1SaroH CrrY, March 2-[Specia
Correspondence. THE Fifty-first congress
died yesterday, and now nearly 200 states
men, who have been eating 5000 each
year out of Uncle Sans crib, are trotting
about Washington City on their uppers
with nothing but their hands in their
pockets and with little moro than confusion
in their heads. They are wondering what
they will do. Many Of them have been in
public service 50 long that they have lost
their identity at home. Their business has
gone to smash, their muscles and minds
are out of training, and they have the look
Of the defeated. Three-fourths of the men
elected to congress can not make
5000 . year at home, and the de-
feated among these three-fourths 60 back
to their districts with expensive tastes and
practically nothing saved out Of their sala-
ries. Cne hundred and seventy odd men,
bers have been defeated for reelection and
. half dozen odd senators have been
thrown from their cushioned seats out
upon the cruel charities of the hustIing
world. Everywhere l go l see the evil
dences Of wailing and crashing of teeth,
and it is only the fewest of the great men
who have decided upon their plans for the
future and who are satisfied to 60 back
home.
THE OUTS or THE SENATE.
The ousted senators are in the best
shape. Senator Farwell is rich. He has
his contract for the big state house in
Texas yet to settle up and the 1000, 900
acres Of land, which he is said to have got
ten from it, will keep his mind busy and
his muscles well-oiled. He will go back to
Chicago to live and will probably continue
the mercantile business with his brother.
Senator Spooner will 60 back to his prac-
tice of law. He was a railroad lawyer
when he was elected to the Senate, and he
is said to have one of the finest legal
from 1872 to 1882 as the lawyer of the
Omaha road and he will probably make
twice this amount in his practice. He
win settle in Milwaukee but the pros
pect, is that he will have Washington
branch of his law Office and that he will
have considerable supreme court and de-
partm emit business. He was much disap-
pointed at not being elected and
understand that he Is talked of as the
successor Of Senator Sawyer and that
Sawyer has promised not to run again.
The people Of Wisconsin have, however,
very friendly feeling for old Philetus and
Wisconsin men tell me they viii not allow
him to retire.
SENATOR INGALLS, REMAINS.
Senator John j. Ingalls, still remains re-
ticent as to his plans. He has not decided
whether he will edit q newspaper at $685.
600 year, give stereopticon lectures on
the scenes of the United States Senate DUR
ing executive sessions in which the mas
terly art of the cartoonist will be only
equaled by the pyrotechnic language Of
the great Kansas orator, or whether he
will settle down to the practice of law in
one of the big cities of the United States
and run the business for ingalls, and reve-
nue. only. He feels he is. for the
time, 2 political corpse, but he has
vanized into life He is, in his own words,
perpendicular and not horizontal, as he
told lady yesterday. This lady came in
to condole with him on his defeat, and
she entered the committee room at the
time Senator Ingalls, was experimenting
the packing of some long boxes of books
which he intended to ship out to Atchison:
These boxes lay in front of the door, and
as the lady shook hands with Senator
ingalls, over them, she pointed downwards
and said:
81 suppose, Senator Ingalls,, these are
collins and they contain the remains Of the
"No," replied the senator, with an en-
his head went up. mo, madame, You use use
the wrong word. These boxes do not con-
tain the remains of the deceased. They
contain the effects Of the deceased The
deceased land here he drew himself up
straighter and straighter, while he threw
out his right arm in . gesture of strength
the deceased is perpendicular and not
an erect position for years to come"
Senator ingalls, will probably do nothing
during the coming summer. He will take
from six to eight months of rest, and will
then, it is safe to say, 60 on the lecture plat
form for the comingseasOn. Among the graf
flying offers he has received to lecture are
number from churches, Sunday-schools
the religious people Of the country do not
believe that ingalls, considers ''purity in
politics an iridescent dream" He will
probably open law Office at Atchison in
connection with his son, but this will be
more to give the young man the chance of
the prestige of his name rather than for
actual work, and he will take only big
cases.
HAMPTON AND EvARTs.
Hampton and Evarts will 20 back home.
and they will, more or less, pay attention
to their farms. Evarts will 60 back to his
practice, and he will probably spend a
good many Of his winters in Washington.
He has good-sized farm in Vermont. and
he bought another big one down on the
Potomac few years ago, and in stock
raising and law he will have plenty to do.
Senator Moody, of South Dakota. is the
lawyer of one of the biggest mining COM
panies Of the Black Hills. He GETS bip
fees, and his salary from this companv
amounts TO much more than he receives in
the United States Senate. He will con-
finue his practice, and will keep his ewes
Senate. What Gil Pierce will do M one
knows. He may blossom out as first
class lawyer, may start q newspaper at
Bismarck, may be an applicant for first
class mission, may be governor of his state
or run frst-class book agency establish.
ment.. He is one of those cat-like men
who always fall on their feet and who are
ready for anything and everything that
the world turns up: As to Joe Brown, he
is worth several million dollars and he
feels thatethis needs all his attention in
his present state of old age and roor
health. This ends the Senate with the
exception of Senator PAYNE, who rich oId
and wiry, will go back to Cleveland.
ONO, and aid in scheming to boom the
political fortunes of his son-in-law. Will.
lam c. Whitney, of New York.
MKINLEY AND HIS FARM.
met Major Mckinley in the Ehh;tt
house last night, and asked him whetbar
he intended to practice law, run for the
governorship of Ohio, or be a candidate