Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12

nix months, but there is scarcely Demo-
cratic editor, school teacher or farmer who
has not been made happy by map, Con-
gressional document or q package of seeds.
Senator Brice has bureau here whose busi-
ness it is to study the wants of bis constitu-
ents, and 1 venture that his postage bills
and his expenditures for extra clerk hire eat
up considerable more than his salary every
week
Al Pen Picture of the Man.
This, however makes very little differ
ence to Cal Brice, for he Is number of
times a millionaire, and he has made his
fortune by his sharp business brains within
the past dozen years. / knew him first about
fifteen years ago, when he used to come
around Columbus with slouch hat on his
head and his pantaloons in his boots and
mud splattered all over his clothes to see
Charlie Foster, who was then Governor of
Ohio, and who was interested with Brce in
laying out the Ohio Central Railroad. I
can't saw that Senator Brice looks much
older than he did then, and his manners are
about the same. He is wiry, angular man
of medium height, who seems to be all
muscle, bone and brain. He has great
shock of brown hair which keeps falling
down over broad but not overly high fore
head. His complexion is fair, his eyes
bright and his face is covered with a short
red beard, each hair of which is curly.
He is a man of business from the ground
mp, and his head is packed full of common
sense. He came here Just fresh from Wall
street, and when l called upon him last
night felt curious to know how the United
States Senate appeared to a practical New
York business man, and I asked him how
he liked his life in the Senate.
Ris Opinion of the Senate.
81 am to a certain extent" replied Sena-
tor Brice, "a new man here at Washington
but in another sense ] am not. have been
In this city every winter more or less for
the past % years, and first came here
about 1870, when Governor Foster was in
Congress and when we had business deal
ings together. 1t was at this time that I
first got acquainted with public men, and I
have renewed and extended my acquaint-
Rnce from that time to this The result was
that knew most of the men in the Senate,
either in business way or otherwise, be-
fore l came here last fall The Senate is, I
think a much better body of men than is
generally supposed, and 1 believe that 1t is,
all told, as good Senate as the United
States has had for generation.
"You hear a great deal Of talk about the
brainy men of the past, and men are prone
TO look upon those who have passed away as
greater than the men of the present I
think the Senate is fully up to the average
of those which have preceded it Its men,
bers are men of culture. education and a
high order of ability. They would be con-
Bidered able men anywhere, and they are q
body OF gentlemen. There is more young
blood in the Senate than we have had for
years, and some of the best young men are
those from the new States"
Millionaire Senators Who Work Hard.
"How about the work of the Senate, Mr..
Brice?"
There is a great deal of work to do" re-
piled Senator Brice, land the Senators as a
rule attend to their duties conscientiously.
Many of them have large private interests
and they have TO attend to these in addition
to their work for their constituents and to
their public duties"
''Do not such private interests affect the
efficiency of public man, Senator, and Is
this not an argument against rich men being
elected to the Senate?''
'No, L think not, Z" was the reply. 'sThe
Senate is not a millionaires' club, as it has
been called, and there are not great num-
Der of rich men in it 1t has some rich
men In 1t, but you must remember that its
rich men and its well-to-do men are not
men who have inherited fortunes Such
property as they have, they have made
themselves and their lifetimes have been
made up of days of hard work. Coming to
the Senate they bring to bear the habits of
industry and business that have made them
successful in the other walks OF life, and
they are the hardest workers and the most
efficient members Of the Senatorial body.