The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-08
SEATTLE posr-NTELIGErCER SUNDAY, MARCH s. 1911

1aS00 10 A8WySloS anu many u tsscAu Assss
big practices before they were elected.
This vas the case with La Toilette. Of Wis
consin, who had law Office at Madison,
which, BY the way, he has kept open dur
ing his six years in congress. He il q
little, sawed-off fellow, with = big voice
and big brain, and he can 60 back to Z
$4,000 law business and make it grow.
He 10 only So years old, and has already
enough TO keep him comfortably. One Of
upon which he has 81, 900 worth Of stock,
and where he breeds some very good horses.
Another horse-loving and horse-raising
Congressman is George Dorsey, Of Ne
braska, who aises fine trotting stock and
who vies with Senators Stockbridge and
Stanford a. an authority on good horse
flesh. Dorsey will now devote himself to
his horse ranch and to his banking, and
cessor.
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
got In congress, and he will make big
thing. 1t patent law when he begins to
practice: He was, you know, commits
8 well as ex-Commissioner Of Pensions
Dudley, who, / am told, is taking things
very easy and is making so 900 year.
Butterworth Is not rich, and his retire
ment rom congress was voluntary.
Judge Thompson, of Ohio, will practice
law at Portsmouth and General Charles
Grosvenor will probably resume his prac-
are fond Of Washington life and they will
come back as soon as they get chance.
CONGRESSMAN PAYsoN AND THE sENAToRsHIP.
A number Of our ex-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 / notice they are very
glad to get them whenever they have q
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
takes you all over Washington for nickel,
and during the ride told him that had
heard that he intended to give up politics
and settle down to the practice OF the law
In Washington. He replied that he was
tired Of political life and that he was glad
he was not going back into it. II have, y
said he, enough money safely invested to
keep me comfortably for the rest of my
days and have bought couple of lots in
Washington, on Massachusetts, avenue,
Dc
and will build me house and live here
| shall not hurt myself practicing, but
will do something at the law and will have
an office here. don't mean to say that I
am rich in the modern sense OF the term,
but ! have enough for myself and my
family, and my wants are not extravagant
ones" This talk had in the afternoon.
That evening the judge, without his knowl-
edge and without his anticipation, was
brought forth as candidate for the United
States senatorship and the next morning I
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 nomination and expressing no
objection whatever to resuming political
labors for six years to come.
JOE CANNON AND OTHERS.
The Hon. J. G. Cannon will go 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 q rich man
if he had kept out Of congress, and it may
be that his defeat will make him million
aire. Cooper, Of Ohio, will practise law at
home. Baker. of New York, will build q
house in Washington and will engage in
banking here. General Bob Kennedy will
60 back to Ohio and to the law.
McComas, Of Maryland, will do
likewise and he will have time
the elections cssans S Mec s isto Re,nb
can, but understand that he married into
strong Democratic family, which has
great influence in his district. His father
in-law, so the story goes, has up to the last
election gone in with all his might for Nc
Comas. But McComas angered him in his
voting and speaking for the force bill, and
the old man kicked, and the result was
young man, and Washington is sorry to
lose him.
Tom Brown, of Indiana, goes out of
congress in very poor health, and it is
very doubtful whether he will ever see
Washington again. He has been steadily
failing throughout the session, and his
friends fear that he can never recover. If
he does he will practice law. He is a good
lawyer, and has been one of the leading
members Of congress since the day he came
here, fourteen years ago.
As to Senator Blair, he will be happy at
Peking, China, and he can live very hap
PLY on his So, 500 year salary He has
his house rent free, and there is enough
civilized society in the Chinese capital to
enable him TO talk education, prohibition
and other reforms.
WESTERN CoNGREssNEN.
It is the same with the Western con-
gressmen who were turned down by the
Alliance. Peters, the man whom the sock
less Simpson succeeds, voluntarily retired.
He viii try to get place on the bench UNI
der the new judicial bill. He said last year
that he was too poor to stay in congress,
and He didn't believe statesman can save
anything on 5000 q year in Washington
City. Morrill, is rich; He goes back to his
banking business in Hiawatha and Leav-
enworth. Perkins will go back to the law,
and Funston, the only one of the Kansas
congressman who was reelected, will come
back here. Funston, by the way, is first
class demagogue. He saw the way
the Alliance people were running the
state, and he wrote letter to the farmers
of his district. telling them that the politi-
clans were against him and that he was
their friend. He had little farm and he
posed as the farmers candidate. He
wrote that the time had come when the
farmers OF the country must stand to-
gether, and the result was that the farmers
voted for him and he is sent back. He is q
politician for all that politics have to give.
Representative Frank, of Missouri, will
go back to st. Louis to the law. Though
gress he has, L is said. law ' practice c
amounting to about SIS, 900 year, and he
is one OF the brightest young lawyers of
his state. Niedringhaus will go back to
the making of tin in ST. Louis. He is q
rich manufacturer and does not like polit-
ical life.
As to Southern changes, George Barnes,
OF Georgia, the latest man in the lower
house, will return to his law practice at
Augusta. Ewart, of North Carolina, will re-
sumo the law at Ashville, which is now
having boom and where the business will
be good, and Bailey Brown, of Virginia,
will have his law practice at Accomac.