Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24

rich nor pooE Don Cameron 10 the only
millionaire smong them, and, by the way,
he Is the only member Of the Senate who
inherited wealth. His income IS said to be
about $780, 900 year-about $12 an hour.
He Is quiet in manner and dress. Quay il
worth comparatively little. In the House,
John Dalzell, Of Pittsburg, IL thrifty law
flour merchant of Philadelphia, is under.
stood to be rich, and Shouk has touched coal
with profit.
The New Jersey Senators are we'll fixed.
If Senator Higgins, of Delaware, 10 wealthy
he doesn't take any pains to show it. His
colleague is said to be worth $75, 900. Ohio
has two Senators calculated to excite the
wrath of Socialists and Anarchists Brice
10 worth many millions made in railroad
ing, and Sherman is rich and would have
been millionaire long ago if he had given
politics the cold shoulder But he holds
that some other things are worth more than
money. The Eighteenth, Nineteenth and
Twentieth districts of Ohio are, curiously
enough, all represented by Taylors, and
they possess two-thirds of the wealth of the
Ohio delegation.
The Rich Msn Named Taylor.
j. D. Taylor is quite wealthy; E. B. Tay-
lor is one of the frat lawyers in the State,
and V. A. Taylor j. successful manufact-
urer. Senators Voorhees, and Turpie, of
Indiana, are Of moderate means, though
they win large fees; and none of the men,
bers in the lower House are rich. The most
active and able Of them ell, Judge Holman,
is worth little more than his farm at home
probably not $15, 900 in all.
In the Senate are three rich 1umbermen,
Mcmillan and Stockbridge, of Michigan,
and Sawyer, of Wisconsin; they are trill-
ionaires. Mcmillan was, originally, be-
lieve, q railroad conductor, and he did his
duty and crept upward till he got rich as Q
car manufacturer and lumber dealer. 1
asked Senator Palmer if the Illinois State
delegation were wealthy. "well, he said,
we're pretty comfortable. I'll wager that
Collum and can measure up 500, 900 be-
tween us!' The richest and perhaps the
ablest and certainly the best educated of
the whole Illinois delegation in the House
Is Robert H. Hit As stenographer "a
years ago he reported the Lincoln-D Douglass
debate and afterward studied the modern
languages and was found very useful in
diplomatic relations.
Ono of Mtchlgan's Lumber Kings.
One of the wealthy members is known to
his friends as "Sam Stephenson" of Memo
minee, Mich. He made his money in lum-
Der. Chapman and Whiting, of the same
State, are also raised far above any inclina-
tion to be Socialists, and to request q
divide" Senator Casey is rich; so is Petit
grew; Davis insists that the most valuable
quality of money is its transferability, so
he enlists actively in the transfer business,
and though he commands large fees, has a
moderate bank account. Senator Villas, of
Wisconsin, has as much as he will ever need.
Mitchell, of Milwaukee, is a several times
millionaire: and probably no other member
from the State except, perhaps, Barwig,
who has recently had a windfall, is worth
$50, 900.
1 asked Representative Breckenridge
how many millionaires there were in the
Arkansas delegation. "Not one!' he said.
thousandaires, and think there is one who
may be designated hundred and fiftyaire.
We have hardly anything in Arkansas" he
said, laughing as he vanished within the
door of the House, Except wisdom and
virtue.''
Tennessee Doesn't Grow Rich Men.
worth $50, 900, unless it is Senator Harris,
whose boys are running big ranch down In
Texas that may sometime be worth some-
thing, or Joseph E. Washington, who is the
son of wealthy man.
Not more than three or four men from the
South are worth S1Oo, ,00O-Senator George,
of Mississippi, being one; and I cannot
name another at this moment-perhaps
German and Ransom. Morgan can make a
great deal of money, for he has high rep
utation as lawyer, and no man in the Sem
ate possesses more all-around information of
an exact sort; but he probably has little
more than his salary.
Out of 400 members Of both Houses there
are less than 20 millionaires; about 80 more
could be called wealthy; hundred others
are in comfortable circumstances, and more
than 100 are poor and depend upon their
salaries for their support. How is this for
"a plutocracy?" w. A. CRoFFUT.