St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-08-21
IS LOSING ITS RANK
UNITED STATES SENATE NO
LONGER RICH MANS CLUB.
Of Twelve New Members Sworn In
Last March Nine Are Without
the Customary Heavy Ac-
count at the Bank,

inc customary Heavy Ac.
count at the Bank.
| WaShlngton.-The name Million
aires Club" for the United States SEN
ate Is a mtsnomer. The chief quail.
ftcation for admittance to that body
is no longer bank account running
into seven or eight figures. 1t is get
ting to be poor mans club. For
several years it has been the custom
to refer to the senate in satirical
terms as an exclusive retreat reserved
for millionaires.
How much money has he?" was
the first question Washingtonians
asked each other when a new man
came In with senatorial credentials in
his hand. He was expected to build
or rent palace in the fashionable
Northwest, stock stable with blood
ed animals, entertain like q prince at
costly dinners and other entertain
ments and drop into the senate occa-
| sionally.
If these Croesuses were a little shy
our foreign relations and the theory
of finance, no fault was found with
them. So long as they had made
their pile and were willing to let some
OF 1t go, they were deemed to have
qualified for membership in the mil
lionaires' club, and the folks were
willing to let it go at that.
Those were the days of such multi
millionafres as Clark of Montana, who
was supposed to be worth $4,000 900
was supposed to be worth S25, 900 900
900: Mcmillan of Michigan, with an
other $1O,OO0,O0O; Dryden of New Jer-
sey, with 100000 or so; Brice of
Ohio, 100000, and Proctor of Yer
mont, 100000.
Then there were Is or 20 others
who had been so unfortunate in life
as to be able to accumulate a bare
million or SO. This lot included Cam
eron of Pennsylvania, Jones of Neva-
da, Stewart Of Nevada, Wolcott of
Colorado and Hanna of Ohio.
In those days the dominant feature
of the senate was the dollar mark.
and the roll call sounded like Roose-
welt list of rich Indicators. A SEN
ator would think nothing of gobbling
up railroad system or two before 60
Ing to work at the big building on |
the hill, and before night his stock |
operations might create a panic in |
Wall street.
Now, all this is changed. A Door
man is no longer lonely in the United |
States senate. He has plenty of COM
pany OF the IL men who were sworn
in on March nine are poor. Two
are rich and another has been able,
by leading a life of celibacy and fru-
galtty, to accumulate about 100000.
Two other senators who were sworn
In few months previously are also
among the Impoverished.
By liberal estimate there are Is
millionaires in the United States SEN
ate. If the exact truth about the
state of the finances of these men
were known, 1t is likely that several
Of them would be dropped from this
list Of modern Midases. It's not an
easy thing to ascertain correctly the
worldly possessions of people these
lays. However, the following sena-
.ors are generally looked upon in
as being millionaires,
some Of them multi-millionaires:
Nelson B. Aldrich of Rhode Island,
Morgan G. Buckley of Connecticut,
". Murray Crane of Massachusetts,,
Jhauncey NJ. Depew of New York,
henry A. DUPONT of Delaware, Steph-
N B. Elkins Of West Virginia, Simon
1uggenheim of Colorado, Francis G. !
Iewlands of Nevada, George S. Nixon ,
f Nevada, George T. Oliver of Penn
Nathan B. Scott of West =
Isaac Stephenson of Wiscon- ,
in, Francis E. Warren of Wyoming,
ohm Kean of New Jersey and George ,
;. Wetmore of Rhode Island. 9
There are several other men who !
light be termed near millionaires." d
hey include Jonathan Bourne of Ore
on, George C. Perkins of California. y
'lihu Root of New York and Charles n
Hughes, Jr., Of Colorado. t
Against this select group of 10 men r
! the great array Of senators who c
re well fixed, comfortably well Off o
nd poor. The last classification is n
le most numerous, and takes in the N
ZEN who have nothing but their sal Il
Res. Especially in the western states
the tendency growing to send Door
en to the senate. Formerly the
lining kings had a large monopoly a
the aanafnrial hnsinesc CG