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

] they also delight to call us, added Gen. Man
derson from across the table, ''when each Of us
| represents the people Of definite geographic
division and the house Of lords represents moth
| ing but proscription-the entail Of q hereditary
aristocracy."
Yet there are doubtless some attorneys Of
corporations if not creatures Of corporations
here" suggested q correspondent sitting by.
FROM THE FOOT OF THE LADDER.
$50 there are in every parliament and every
| Legislature" answered Representative Breckn-
ridge; ''but I Judge from what have heard
that almost all of the millionaires 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 Califor
mia without a cent, said one.
lone began a railroad brakeman" said an
| other.
lone began by sweeping out store a. 90 a
week" said another; land the boy that did
that. having got to the top at last, has perfect
| right to pay 81, 800 4 month board at the Ar
lington if he wants to- and they say that is
what he actually does pay for himself and
wife"
"And have no doubt" said another, "that a
majorityof the members of both houses depend
| on their congressional salaries FOR a living"
| This conversation set me to thinking and in
quiring, and herein are set down my findings
| THE NAGNATEs THINNING OUT.
! The Senate and House will not foot up in the
aggregate SO much as they did two years ago
within fifty or hundred 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 Carolina crackers and became a five million
| airc; Fnrwell of Chicago, who has 5000 miles
| Of rail fences in Texas; Hearst, the many mil
| ipnuirp of the Golden ,nfo pupoh ho haI
| $4,000 a month from the ''Smal Hopes" mine;
| Spooner. who earned a pile by hard knocks;
Scott, who began by hoeing corn at 10 cents q
day and climbed upward till he counted his in
come at $4,000 day; Spinola, who began at
| the lowest round and climbed to the highest, on
which seven figures were written; Adams, with
| a $500 900 wife, and several other such.
An odd thing about it this year is that three
fourhs of the wealth in both houses belongs to
men whose names begin with S-Sawyer, Stew
art, Stanford, Sanders, Sherman. Shoup, Squire,
Stockbridge, Stahlnecker, Stevens and Sam
Stephenson-a formidable list of purse bearers.
And Spooner. Snider and Spinola have Just
Withdrawn from the sibilant association.
ALONG THE ROCKIES.
The 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.
don't know whether he Is worth thirty or hun
dred millions, but the larger amount costs
more thought and attention than the smaller
without furnishing particle more Of comfort
1t doesn't make any difference.
saStewa2fD{ Nevada has his ups and downs
The heathen Chinee 3nhabiss-sse castiewhich.
he built during one of his ups. He lost his all
at that time, bu. is pegging away again. He
has u striking physiognolny-put sardonc
smile upon Michael Angeles portrait Of Jeho-
yah and you have Stewart. He il ordinarily
good natured and sometimes rich, bu. he has
several times been brought to the verge of pow
erty By helping his friends. His colleague be-
longs to the wealthy wing of the Jones family;
and FELTON, of California has been bold and
lucky Spectator. and hit the buil's-eye during
the oil excitement.
Mitchell and Dolph could foot up. perhaps,
800, 900 apiece; Allen is a popular Young
lawyer and gets large fees and Squire has no
nightmare dreams OF the poorhouse-indeed q
newspaper 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 outside incomes more
than equal to their salaries. The same can be
said of Henderson who has made something in
Omaha real estate.
THE NEW ENGLAND CONTINGENT.
Almost all of the New England members in
both houses began with nothing and have held
their own-that is they ere dependen. on their
sdiaIics ioT u hNlHS Ills Is exactly or nearly
true of FRYE. Dixon, Chandler and the Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut Senators, but they
are all hard-working men Of large influence.
Hale acquired about S750.000 when he won
Zach Chandlers daughter, and he has kept it,
Morrill, and Aldrch began rs grocery clerks
and they now count their wealth by six figures.
II is understood that Walker in the House from
Worcester. is a millionaire, making his money
in boots and shoes, where he started as me-
chanic. He could probably buy out oil of the
highly educated young democrats thrown to
the surface in last years eruption. whom he
alludes 10 collectively as very fresh" and ''the
Massachusetts, kindergarten Cabot Lo dye is
said 10 be rich, as is also Morse OF the Sunrise
stove polish.
THE MIDDLE STATES.
Neither Of the New York Senators is rich-in-
deed, Evarts was worth good deal more than
Hill is. This may be proper place to say that
Cleveland has quadrupled his property since he
became President and is now probably worth q
quarter of a million. The House has two plumb
ers-Felix Campbell Of New York and Belknap
of Michigan. Felix is happy in the conscious
ness that he could pipe Off half million dollars
from his bank. Belknap is. doubtless. also in
the proverbial condition. Belden of Syracuse
has amassed a million SO in railroads and
things. BOurks Cochran must be well fixed,
for he bought S100, 900 house here last year
which he will have newly frescoed when he il
eiecteo SENATOR III HiscOckB place. JOnn H.
Fellows, who divides with Cochran the reputa-
ton of being the most eloquent man in the
House, has scared the wolf way off. He dimes
on Chamberlin's terrapin and lies down at
night amid his varied sumptuosities, gets
big fees for trying to hammer
sense into the skulls Of a petit Jury
and the other day declined the offer Of $780,
COO salary to manage large property. Lock-
wood Of Buffalo married rich. Tracey of Albany
| can foresee the probability Of regular meals for
long time. This gave him the energy requi-
site to successfully lead the anti-silver hosts
and to get 81 800 900 in the reciprocal titilla-
ton bill to improve the harbors along the
tempest-tossed shores Of Troy and Cohoes
Col. Greenleaf, who is cordially hated by all
the burglars and bank robbers in the world as
the producer Of elaborate combination and
time locks, is worth only half million or q
million, but is just as well of as if he were
rich for his wide general information and his
Judgment and sagacity are often appealed to in
the House.
The Pennsylvanians in Congress are gener-
ally in moderate Observation-Disclosures rich
nor poor. Don Cameron IL the only millionaire
among them, and. by the way, be is the only
member Of the Senate who Inherited wealth.
His income is said to be about $50, 900 year
about S12 an hour, He is quiet in manner and
dress. Quay is worth comparatively little. In
the House John Dalzell Of Pittsburgis q thrifty
lawyer and worth, perhaps. . quarter Of o mil
hon. McAleer, -four merchant Of Philadelphia,
Is understood TO be rich and Shoup has touched