The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-02-17

Scott Of West Virginia 80. 100000
Bourne of Oregon ........ 100000
Smoot of Utah ........... 100000
Hale of Maine ............ 100000
Root Of New York ........ 100000
Brandegee Of Connecticut . 100000
Other Well-to.Do Senators
Other senators whose world possess
sions are believed to be above $1,000,-
600 are Briggs of New Jersey; Will
liam Alden Smith of Michigan; Nc
Emery of Louisiana; Owen of Oklaho-
ma; Pehrose of Pennsylvania; Per-
kins Of California: Raynor of Mary
land. and Page Of Vermont.
Those who are Comfortably fixed"
but who would not be called rich in
the crowd of moneyed men with whom
they are associated, are Burnham of
Connecticut; Sutherland of Utah;
Crawford of South Dakota; Dixon and
Carter Of Montana; Richardson of
Delaware; Frye Of Maine; Bailey OF
Texas (whOm some would put in the
millionaire class; Chamberlain of
Oregon; McCumber of North Dakota;
Lorimer of Illinois, and Flint of Cali
fornia, whose action inspired this ar
ticle.
Senator's WHO are generally spoken
fOfras poorly supplied with this worlds
goods are Cullom of; Illinois; Cum
minis of Iowa: jeff Davis of Arkansas;
Bristow of Kansas; Gallinger of New
Hampshire; Dick Of Ohio; Money of
Mississippi; Gore, the blind senator
from Oklahoma; Daniel of Virginia;
Stone and Warner of Missouri, and
Beveridge of Indiana.
But Washington is likely to be a
bad point of vantage from which to
estimate statesman's wealth. Quite
frequently they acquire the habit of
talking poor"
| For that reason it may be sympathy
wasted when you condole with q
'poor" senator or member of congress
in Washington and wish that you
were Monte Cristo so that you
might reward the struggling patriot
by handing him a million or two as
a slight token of your esteem. Dear
old Senator Cullom of Illinois, who
has been in Washington holding down
his job ever since the oldest inhabi-
tant was a kid, is undoubtedly poor.
If he has anything besides the clothes
on his back, nobody knows it, and
nobody would believe it if you told
him so. Even the most violent enc
mics of Senator Cummins of Iowa
will admit that he is pretty nearly
broke, and those who are acquainted
with the home life of Senator LaFol-
lette of Wisconsin assert that he
barely makes both ends meet.
En11ofto n,snho h1v aorno eQ0. .nnn
or $4,000 year on the chautauqua
and regular lecture platforms. But
! he has to spend every cent he can
scrape together on the sinews of war
in his state. At his last election he
turned in an expense account, as re-
quired by law. showing that his sena-
torial race cost him about $125,OOO.
Much of this was furnished by his
colleague, Senator Stephenson, the
Wisconsin lumber king. AS La Fol-
lette and Stephenson have had a fall
ing out, Mr.. LaFollette must look else
where for financial help next cam
paign. Many of the senators, as we'll
as the representatives. eke out an
honest living by spellbinding to be-
vies of interested school teachers on
the chautauqua circuit in the summer
Ftime. They will average about $3.50
and expenses lecture. Mr.. LaFol-
lette is supposed to collect $3.50 for
each talk he delivers, and Mr.. DOL
liver of Iowa another popular orator
on the same platform is said to get
5000.
Simon Guggenheim the Richest.
| The richest man in the senate. ST.
mon Guggenheim Of Denver, Colo, is
one Of the seven brothers Of the name
who dominate the smelling business
of the country If not of the world.
Probably they do not know what they
are worth. for like all colossal for
tunes the ups and downs of the mar
ket change their millions this way or
that every twenty-four hours. Prob
ably their Montana smelters grinding
out silver and copper, their mines of
gold and coal in Alaska, their silver
&ad copper properties in British Col
umbia, Mexico. Peru, and Nevada, and
their tremendous real estate holdings
in half a dozen of the big cities of
the country would sell. II placed on
the market, for s500.O0O,OOO. The