Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24
PAYING $1,SOO MONTH FOR BOARD


Of corporations, If not creatures Of corpo-
rations, here" suggested a correspondent
sitting by.
$50 there are in every Parliament and
every Legislature answered Represents
tive Breckenridge, 'but judge from what
I have heard that almost all Of the million
aires in the Senate began without dollar,
as common workmen. And it Is the same
at our end Of the Capitol"
"Two began with pick and shovel in Cal
ifornia, without cent, said one.
zone began as railroad brakeman" " said
another.
Paying 81, 900 a Month Board.
zone began by sweeping out store at 81
a week." said another, 'tand the boy that,
having got to the top at last, has a perfect
right to pay 81, 800 month board at the
Arlington if he wants to; and they say that
is what he actually does pay for himself
and wife.
"And I have no doubt, said another,
''that q majority of the members of both
Houses depend on their Congressional sala-
ries for living"
This conversation set me to thinking and
inquiring, and herein are set down my
findings:
The Senate and House will not now foot
up in the aggregate 60 much as they did two
years ago, within 30 or 100 million dollars.
A few rich men have come In, but more
have gone. From the Senate have departed
Joe Brown, who began as the poorest and
raggedest of Caroline crackers and became
five millionaire; Farwell, of Chicago who
has 5000 miles Of rail fences in Texas;
II Al 41o noll
Gate; Plumb, who had s., 900 a month from
the ''Small Hopes mine; Spooner, who
earned pile by hard knocks; Tom Scott,
who began by hoeing corn at 10 cents day
and climbed upward till he counted his in
GENE at 5000 day; Spinola, who began
at the lowest round and climbed to the high
est on which seven figures were written;
Adams, with $500, 200 wife; and several
other such.
Money Runs to the Letter g.
An odd thing about it this year is that
three-fourths of the wealth in both Houses
belongs to men whose names begin with
"S"-Sawyer, Stewart, Stanford, Sanders,
Sherman, Shoup, Squire, Stockbridge,
Stahlnecker, Stevens and Sam Stephenson
a formidable list of purse bearers And
Spooner, Snider and Spinola have just with
drawn from the sibilant association.
Tie richest Senators are of course from
the Pacific slope. Stanford is one of the
four or five richest men in the country, and
worries himself all the time about new
schemes for spending his income on his pet
university. I don't know whether he is
worth $50, 600, 600 or $1o0, 600, 600, but Is the
larger amount costs more thought and at
tention than the smaller without furnishing
particle more Of comfort, it doesn't make
any difference. Stewart of Nevada, has
his ups and downs The heather Chinee in
habits the castle which he built during one
of his ups. He lost it all at that time, but
is pegging away again. He has striking
physiognomy-put a sardonic smile upon
Michael Angeles portrait of Jehovah, and
you have Stewart. He is ordinarily good
natured and sometimes rich, but he has been
brought to the verge of poverty by helping
his friends. His colleague belongs to the
wealthy wing of the Jones family, and
FELTON,, of California, has been bold and
lucky speculator, and hit the bulls eye
during the oil excitement.
Car Lined With Solid Silver.
Mitchell and Dolph could foot up per-
haps 500, 600 apiece; Allen is popular
young lawyer and gets large fees and
Squire has no nightmare dreams Of the poor
house-indeed, one of the organs of the jaw
smiths recently announced that he came to
Washington in "a car lined with solid
silver!' Teller and Wolcott, of Colorado,
are moderately rich. that is, they have out
side incomes more than equal to their
salaries The same can be said of Mander-
son, who has made something in Omaha real
estate.
Almost all of the New England members
in both Houses began with nothing and
have held their own-that is, they are de-
pendent on their salaries for living. This
is exactly or nearly true OF Frye, Dixon,
Chandler and the Massachusetts and Con-
necticut Senators, but they are all hard
working men of large influence. Hale ac-
quired about $3.50, 900 when he won Zach
Chandler's daughter, and he has kept it.
Morrill, and Aldrich began as grocery
clerks, and they now count their wealth by
six figures 1t is understood that Walker,
in the House from Worcester, is q million
aire, making his money in boots and shoes
He started as mechanic. He could proba
bly, buy out all of the highly educated
young Democrats thrown to the surface in
last years eruption, whom he alludes to col
lect1vely as ''very fresh" and ''the Massa-
chusetts kindergarten. Cabot Lodge is
said to be rich, as is also Morse, of the Sun
rise stove polish.
CIsveland Has Hit the Buips Eye.
Neither of the New York Senators is
rich-indeed, Evarts was worth good deal
more than Hill is This may be the proper
place to say that Cleveland has quadrupled
his property since he became President,
and Is now probably worth $3.50, ,O00 The
House has two plumbers-Felix Campbell,
of New York, and Belknap, Of Michigan.
Felix Is happy in the consciousness that he
could pipe off $500, 900 from his bank. Bel
knap IL doubtless also in the proverbial
IF h~~
amassed million or 80 in railroads and
things. Bourke Cochran must be well
fixed, for he bought q 500, 600 house here
last year, which he will have newly fres-
coed when he Is elected Senator in His
cocks place. John r. Fellows, who d.
yides with Cochran the reputation of being
the most eloquent man in the House, has
scared the wolf way of. He dimes on
Chamberlain's terrapin and lies down at
night amid his varied sumptuosities, gets
big fees for trying to hammer sense into the
skulls Of q petit jury, and the other day de-
clined the offer OF $5O, 900 salary to man
age large property.
Lock ood, OF Buffalo, professional NOM
inator in chief to Cleveland, married rich.
Tracy, of Albany, can foresee the probabil-
ity OF regular meals for long time. This
gave him the energy requisite to success-
fully lead the antI-silver hostS and to get
81, SOC, 900 in the reciprocal Utilization bill
to improve the harbors along the tempest.
tossed shores Of Troy and Cohoes Colonel
Greenleaf, who ID cordially hated by all
the burglars and bank robbers in the world,
as the producer Of elaborate combination
and time locks, Is worth only 500, 900 or
81, 900, 900.
ihs Pennsyivan,ans In Congress.
The members ffofd PehnsvIyania are rem.
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