The age-herald., 1902-05-11
Only 16 Senators in That Class and Many Are Poor

been grossly exaggerated in the public mind.
 Then again the manner in which these l Senators gained what wealth they have l is interesting and important as bearing on the question whether they are Sen ators because they are rich or rich be- cause they are Senators, or whether the matter of money has anything to do with the case.
 Everybody knows how Clark of Mon tana made his money as a copper king and how he used 1t to further his polit- ical fortunes. The printed testimony of the Senate Committee that investigated his right to his seat told that story, and ne is now Senator with clear title
 kearns of Utah is a bonanza mine owner also, and a railroad builder, and he is, moreover young man who will be heard of later. John Kean is the present head of family whose wealth is an inheritance. It has never been di- yided and is increased by Dusin. .ss sa- gacity
 James McMillan start ed in life as a car builder, and is now interested in many great business concerns, although he has retired from active work ard turned his interests over to his sons Stephen R Elklns IS speCulator in lands coal and railroads, and fe is still making money.
 Dryden is the head of a powerful fife insurance corporation, business that nas always made money and probably all ways will. Reofield Proctor owns valu-- able marble quarries in lis native state ana every time a man dies he sells a tombstone, so how can he help being rich? George Peabody Wetmore's money is inherited
 Nelson w. Aldrich has been in Con gross for twenty-four years. and for twenty-one years has been a Senator He was formerly wholesale grocer He is q business man of abilities as great as these he displays as politician and states man. and in his management of the Sen ate Republicans.
 He would have been q rich man if ba had never entered public life, and all his money has been made outside of it. His present fortune, such as 1t is Is the re- suit Of bis labors in consolidating and per1ectns the electric street railroad system of Providence and its suburbs. a. task shat he mas been engaged in for several years, which is just now fully completed.
 MT. Hanna made his money by honor able methods in the iron producing and iron transporting business in Cleveland and on the Great Lakes.
 Chauncey NJ. Depew derived his wealth from atte ending to the business of the New York Central Railroad and the Vanderbilt family generally.
 Eugene hale's wife fell heir to the modest fortune of her father the late Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, who was an honest merchant prince of De- troit oefcre ne became a United States Senator and Secretary of the Interior.
 ke Senate, taken as a whole is a body of poor men. The Sehators could pro perly be divided into three classes, as follows Rich, comfortable and poor
 In the first class should be placed the twelve Senators above mentioned as mill lionaires, and in the second class the following: Allison, Bard, Blirnham Bur rows, Burton, Carmack. Clark of Wy oming, Clapp, Deitrich, Dillingham;, Eos ter of Louisiana, Foster of Washington. Fairbanks, For aksr, Gamble, Gibson. Hansbrough. Harris, Jones of Arkansas. Kittridge, Lodge, Milard, Mitchell, Nel- son, Perkins. Platt Of New York, Quarles, Quay, Scott, Spooner, Teller. Warren and Wellington.
 This designation of "comfortable," it should be explained, means that the Sen atcrs so listed have some sort of fixed Income beyond thair Senatorial salary and professional or business earnings sufficient for a comfortable maintonance but not so large as to entitle them to be placed iE the class with those worth $1. .0G0,0o0.
 The other Sepators-that Is, those who have nothing beyond their salary or