The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-09-03
HOW THEY GO BROKE.
SOME INTERESTING STORIES OF I'M
PECUNlOUS STATESMEN.
It Is Not Unusual for Congressme en- to MORT
gage Their Salaries a Year In Advance.
PresideSts Who Have been Hard Up.
StatesIn sn Who Were Tramp Printers.

viz IhhNe been IaTu Ops
Statesms u Who Were Tramp Printers.
Especial Corrcspondence.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-It was "a men,
Der of congress. a mar of national repu-
~tation, who said to me yesterday: II am
broke and can't get home. That is the
reason | am staying in Washington
through the hot season." But why
don't you discount your salary a few
months in advance?" / asked. "Have
already done that" was the reply; ''have
drawn my account mp to Nov. 1. and
then will have to draw it till the end of
my term in order to raise enough money
to pay my campaign expenses.
$50 you see | am practically mort
gagged till the 4th of next March. To
maintain myself and family in Wash
ington in the style which my position
demands and my wife insists upon I
have been compelled to spend not only
my salary as II representative. but my
income as a member of a law firm in
my town and considerable money be-
sides. | wish l had never been elected
TO congress. but being in ] can't afford
to let go without one or two more terms.
Here | am broke. busted flat, unable to
20 to seashore or mountains and afraid
to go home, because the very moment l
arrive there the campaign striker will
he after me with both hands"
The statesman who is broke we know
very well in Washington. 1t is no dis
grace to be without a bank account,
though decidedly inconvenient. Gen
eral Garfield, during his long term in
congress, was nearly always ont of
money. He had an unfortunate habit
of borrowing from his friends. He
never failed to pay back, but was always
in n state of perturbation lost ne might
fail to meet some Obligation Of this eo~t.
1t is not generally known that while
he was in the presid,..iaI IL If G'"H- al
Arthur was nearly always har, va for
cash. His expenses were very h2.vv.
and ran right up with his salary. II
often happened that tradesmen had to
wait for their pay. They were willing
TO do this, for the president was II good
customer and his obligations were as
good AS gold.
General Grant was often broke be
fore the war. and he saw some pretty
hard times after he left the presidential
chair. Abraham Lincoln knew very
well what it was not to have a cent in
the world. There were days in the life
of Grover Cleveland. not so very many
years ago, when he found it necessary
to let his board bill run "A week or two
for lack of ready cash, and when the
proprietor Of the Buffalo restaurant in
which the future governor and president
played his favorite game Of penuchle
used to be asked to put it on the slate
for Grover"
Mention of MIR. Cleveland recalls a
good story Of II of his most famous
friends, ex-Mayor W. II. Grace, of New
York. Grace Is now Il very rich man
how rich nobody knows. There are four
brothers Grace in the firm of W. Ii.
Grace & Co.. and their house is worth
from $50, 0O0, 900 TO $50. 200. 900. Gre of
the brothers is in Australia. where me is
n power III political as well as in COM
mercial circles. Another brother is in
South America. where he is Il power be-
hind governments and "A marplot in
revolutions. A third Grace is in Lon
don, where he j. Il very influential
merchant and IL member Of parlia;&,nt.
The fourth and chief of this remarkable
quartet Of brothers is the cX.mavor,
who is an extraordinary genius IN poll
'ics and
With all his genius. Gra"" was once
broke" Some years ago lie arrived in
st. Louis without "A dollar. Casting
about for some means of raising the
wind" he remembered that II man
named Ryan lived III that town. He
did not know Ryan. but Ryan had mar
ried II woman named Mary Moore. who
had been II friend of Grace's i'll Il New
Orleans boarding house. The future
mayor and millionaire merchant Thought
if he could find Ryan and Mary he conld
borrow enough money TO get outof town
with. He didn't know Ryan's first name.
and there were about a hundred Evans
in the city directory.
But ore of theS" Ryaus kept n saloon
on the levee, anu Grace OWNED that
this was his man because he had kept q
similar place in New Orleans. Entering
the levee saloon Grace found a tough
joint-sawdust On the floor, greasy t.
bles, ping ugly behind the rude bar.
Are you Mr.. Ryan, inquired Grace.
with his sweetest smile. Nav: ou;.
What yer WANT Il want to see M.
Ryan" ''Ef | amt good enough fer sc.
sit down over thar an wait When
do you expect Mr., Ryan I'M "Meble
five minutes; mebbe not for a week"
This was not encouraging. but Grace
was desperate. anu so he sat down. In
an hour, as luck would have il, Mr..
Ryan came in. There's n blokc as
wants to see YER" said the barkeeper as
the proprietor entered. Ryan was a
pretty tough looking customer himself,
but his heart was in the right place, for
rs 0 as Grace mentioned his former
acquaintance with the girl who had be-
come the divekeeper's wife Ryen took
his hand and said: