Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-23

rich easily enough, but preferred to write ssBen
Bolt and half a dozen interesting novels,
which was . good deal more difficult.
=. u d Senator Higgins Of Pelsware u vs.lshy
league 10 said to be worth S75, 900.
THE CENTRAL STATES.
Ohio has two Senators calculated 10 excite
the wrath Of socialists and anarchists. Brice d
worth many millions, made IN railroading, and
Sherman is rich and would have been mill
ionaire 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
quite wealthy, E. B. Taylor is one Of the first
lawyers in the state and v. A. Tuylor isa sue
cessful manufacturer. ft.
Senators Voorhees, and Turpie Of Indiana are
OF moderate means though they win large
fees, and none Of the members in the lower
them all, Judge Holman, is worth little more
than his farm at home-probably not $15, 200
in all
In the Senate are three rich lumbermen, Nc
MILAN and Stockbridge Of Michigan and Saw
yer OF Wisconsin; they are millionaires. Nc
the Detroit al d Milwaukee railroad and he did
his duty and crept upward till he got rich as .
car manufacturer and lumber dealer.
l asked Senator Palmer il the Illinois state
delegation were wealthy. "Weu," he said,
we're pretty comfortable. I'll wager that
Cullom and can measure up ESQ 900 between
us" The richest and perhaps the ablest, and
certainly the best educated, of the whole Illinois
delegation in the House is Robert H. Hit. Az
astenograIther thirty-four years ago he reported
the Lincoln-Douglas debate and sf.erward
studied the modern languages and was found
var nh Ia and affa oil 10
One Of the wealthy members is known to his
| friends as ''Sam Stevenson" of Menomince,
Michigan. He made his money in lumber.
Chapman and Whiting of the same state are
also raised far above any inclination to be
socialists and to request "divide"
Senator Casey is rich; 80 is Pettigrew; Davis
insists that the most valuable quality Of money
is its transferability, 90 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 il q
several times millionaire, and probably no other
member from tho state except, perhaps, Bar
wig. who has recently had o windfall, is worth
$50, 600.
IN pIx1E's LAND.
l asked Representative Breckenridge how
many millionaires there were In the Arkansas
delegation. mot one!' he said There are
perhaps, two or three ten thousandaires and
three or four thousandaires, and think there d
one who may be designated as hundred and
ffftyaire. We have hardly anything in Arkan-
sas,' he said, laughing, as he vanished within
the door OF the House, ''except wisdom and
virtue"
There is not man here from Tennessee worth
1000. unless it is Senator Harris, whose boys
are running big ranch down in Texas that
MAY some time be worth something, or joseph
f. Washington, who is the son Of a wealthy
man. Richardson has only his first syllable
that is wealthy, but he is q professional law-
maker, having ''done time In the legislature
when young and been elected speaker at twenty
eight He sometimes eats the duck whose back
has been canvased, is not obliged to ride ALWAYS
on the street cars and is an Ancient Scotch I'm
perlal Arch Mason Of the thirty-third degree
Not more than three or four men from the
south are worth $780, 1000, Senator George of
Mississippi being one, and I cannot name an
otherat this moment-perhaps German and
Ransom. Morgan can make q great deal OF
money. for he has high reputation as q law
yer, and no man in the Senate possesses more
all-round information of an exact sort, but he
probably has little more than his salary.
Out OF four hundred members of both houses
there are less than twenty millionaires; about
fifty more would be called wealthy; hundred
others are in comfortable circumstances, and
more than hundred and fifty are poor and de-
pend upon their salaries for their support. How
Is this for ''plutocracy?"
W. A, CROFFUr