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longed debate on tariff Is held up as 9
culprit responsible for a news drouth o.
such severity that Washington correspon.
dents are forced to the extremity Of slzlns
up the most august ~assemblage or
earth as a millionaires club. The Brook.
Ign Eagle man. a cautious observer Of ma.
tional and financis symptoms. asserts tina
a poor man, though not a poor senator
is not as lonesome as he used to he In
senate. He has plenty OF company. OF the
twelve new men who we're sworn in on
March T. nine are poor. Two are rich and
another has been able, by leading a life
Of celibacy and frugallty, to accumulate
about 100000. Two other senators who
were sworn in a few months previous are
also classified among the impoverished.
BY a liberal estimate there are fifteen
millionaires in the United States senate
II the exact truth about the state Of the
finance of these men were known. II is
likely that several Of them would he
dropped from this list of modern Midases.
It's not an easy thing to ascertain cor
rectly the worldly possessions OF people,
these days. However. the following SEN
atorsN are generally looked upon in Wash
ington as being millionaires. some Of them
multi millionaires:
Nelson b. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Nor
gan G. Buckley Of Connecticut, w. Muir
ray Crane of Massachusetts,, Chauncey M.
Depew Of New York, Henry A. Du Pont Of
Delaware, Stephen b.. Elkins of West vir-
ginia, Simon G~uggenheim Of Colorado.
Francis G. Newlands Of Nevada. George
S. Nixon of Nevada, George r. Oliver of
Pennsylvania. Nathan r. Scott of West
Virginia, Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin,
Francs e, Warren of Wyoming, John
Kean of New Jersey and George p. Wet
more of Rhode Island. There are several
other men who might be termed near
millionaires." They include Jonathan
Bourne of Oregon, George c, Perkins of
California, Elihu Root of New York and
Charles j. Hughes, jr., OF Colorado.
Against this select group of nineteen
men is the great army Of senators who
are well fixed, comfortably well off, and
poor. The last classification is the most
numerous, and takes in the men who have
nothing but their salaries. Especially in
the western states is the tendency grow
ing to send poor men to the senate. For
merly the mining kings had a Large mon
opoly of the senatorial business.
Root and Hughes were the men of afflu-
ence of the dozen who took the oath at
the commencement of the present session.
Burton of Ohio, who has saved nearly
800, 900, was the other man of some means.
OF the balance, Bristow OF Kansas was,
perhaps, the man with the --LATEST pocket
book, and he looked 1t. Making both ends
meet is a serious problem OF life to Bris-
tow, and may account, for the fervor with
which he is attacking the high schedules
of the tariff. Chamberlain of Oregon Is
also poor. One reason for his poverty
was a conviction he once had thai it was
his duty to %squander his savings in order
to pay the depositors of a failed savings
bank of which he was a director. This
occurred some years ago, When his OPP
ponents in his fight for the senatorship
sprung the story that Chamberlain had
been connected with a bank that had
failed, his manly sacrifice came out, and
the news elected him TO the senate.
Coe |. Crawford of South Dakota is a
poor man with a large family, and he lives
in a boarding house here which could be,
with truthfulnesss, classed as cheap. "
Johnson of North Dakota and Jones of
Washington would have to borrow money
to keep going II il were. not for their sal
aries as senators. Shively of Indiana has
never had more than his modest income as
a lawyer, and Smith of South Carolina
earned his livelihood up to a few years
ago as a travelling organizer for the cot
ton growers of his state.
CumnIns Of low was on the high road
! to wealth until he became a reformer.
About all he has now is the house tina
cost him $50, 1000, and he hasn't money
enough left to run 1t. 1t was the boast OF
Brown Of Nebraska last year that he was
the only member of the senate too poor to
own a home. His colleague, Burkett, Is a
poor man also. Taken as a class, the men
who have recently come to the senate from
the west are lacking in worldly goods. The
same statement is true generally of SEN
ators from the south.
Bourne OF Oregon had one fortune left to
him, which he lost, and then he made
another, a good part Of which has slipped
from him also. Buckley of Connecticut is
the head OF one of the biggest insurance
companies in the country and is an hon
ored member of the Millionaires' club.
Carter of Montana came to the senate In
1886 a rich man, and left in 1901, dead broke.
Mckinley gave MIN a government job.
Since then he has made enough to keep
the wolf from the door without doing any
more hard work. Culberson of Texas mar
rled a rich wife and is as we'll fixed as any
of the southern contingent. La Toilette is
a money-msker. but he lets It slip through
his fingers. He invests nearly every dol
lar he makes in printers ink, BY hard
work on the chautauqua circuit he earned
5000 in 1907. What he didn't spend In pro-
noting his campaign against the trusts he
invested in his weekly newspaper.
''Cullom is poor as a church mouse" is
a comment frequently heard in the senate.
A remark of this kind, by the way, is the
highest tribute that could be paid TO the
honesty OF any man who has been long in
the senate. Cullom has been there for
twenty-six years. and has saved barely
enough to buy a small but comfortable
home. Hale, who has been in the senat
since 1881, has had the benefit OF his wife's
fortune. She was a daughter of the late
Zachariah Chandler Of Michigan, who was
a merchant prince of Detroit before he be-
came United States senator and secretary
OF the interior
The greater part of the bank account Of
owen OF Oklahoma Is made up OF his share
OF the largest fee ever awarded in a case