The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-01-14

| "NoMV MiIfIonaire-Beck, New Sugar
TvssA cesrssI, Former Assistant At
sorHsy General.
Washington, Dec. %. - The senate
can no longer claim exclusive title as
the rich mans club" The house also
has it's millionaires. Without looking
up Bradstreets ratings of members
there are more than a bakers dozen
Of representatives whose wealth runs
into seven or eight figures that can be
named offhand and many others who
have enough that they do not have to
live on their congressional salaries.
Perhaps the best known of the bunch
Is Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, the
husband of Alice Roosevelt. Long
worth has money in his own right and
will inherit millions from the estate of
his father. Two others almost equally
well known are J. w. Fordney of
Michigan, who started as a lumber
man, and William B. Mckinley of Hi
nois, treasurer Of the Republican con-
gressional committee, who is some
SpOACI VI as lhC lllOoI POpuldl
member of the lower house. New
York has at least two Of the million
Rire representative - Francis Burton
Harrison of New York city and John
E. Andrus of Yonkers, who is known
both as the chemical king" and as
'Old Chewing Gum" 1 am also In
clined to think that George w. Fair
child of the Oneonta district Is in the
millionaire class or close to it. while
Hamilton Fish of Garrison Is at least
the brother of a millionaire and has
money In his own right An Illinois
congressman who Is in the millionaire
rating Is Frank o. Lowden, son-in-law
Of George NJ. Pullman, founder of the
Pullman Palace Car works. Butler
Ames Of Massachusetts, like Nicholas
Longworth, inherited his fortune, and
the same IL true of George d. Nc
Creary of Pennsylvania. Others in ne
class are z. A. Hayes Of California,
George Franklin Huff of Pennsylva-
mia, Jacob Van Vechten Olcott of
New York, Nelson P. Wheeler of Penn
sylvania and John Dalzell of the same
state, the second wheel in the house
machine. Uncle Joe Cannon is at any
-ate near" millionaire.
More Customs Indictments.
Those who had any doubts as to the
determination of the government to
stamp out customs frauds should be
treasured by the indictment OF twenty
seven persons for smuggling silks, mil
linery and other goods. Unlike the
sugar indictments, these did not all &C.
cur I'm New York, but reached to Chi
cago and elsewhere. 1t is a cause for
congratulation that there Is at least
one form of graft and stealing of pub
lie money, for this form Of fraud is
Indirect theft, which is to be made I'M
profitable in this country.
Beck and the Sugar Trust.
Former Representative John Wesley
Gaines of Tennessee points out pc
culiar fact in relation to the choice of
James NJ Beck to succeed John e.
Parsons as attorney for the sugar
trust Beck was formerly assistant
attorney general and while in that of
fee had charge of an important prose
cution against the identical sugar
trust for which he is now chief coun-
sell Senator Edmunds charged at that
time that the trust might have been
dissolved If the government case
against it had been properly drawn.
AS it was, it escaped scot free.
Not In Withdrawing Mood.
Speaker Cannon warmly asserts that
there is nothing In the report that he
will not again be a candidate for the
speakership. From this it is evident
that any attempt to eliminate Uncle
Joe or to make him a goat will have
to be done without his consent. In
other words. the only way to make
him withdraw is to convince him he
cannot be elected.
Is This a Blow at Standard Oil?
The trusts are being Jared in one or
two spots at least. The order of the
secretary of war to buy supplies of no
trust may be followed up by
other departments of the government,
and the example could even be follow
ed by some of the states and munich
palities and by the people themselves.
This is not exactly n boycott. as Com
pers and his fellow labor officials have
been sentenced to Jail for bOycotting.
but is at least something of that ma
ture. Anyway, it is a good thing.
A Vain Hope.
Representative Stafford has intro
luced a bill requiring congress to meet
the second Monday in November in
stead Of the first Monday in December
each year. So that something may be
accomplished before the holidays. Ii
Is certain that the bill will not pass,
aud it is doubtful that it would do any
good if it did. 1t will not pass for the
reason that the second Monday I'm No
comes too soon after election.
when the members are worn out with
heir campaigns. They have 10 work
10 get into congress even If they do
not work after they are in. The bill
would probably fail of its Intended eff
feet even If it were passed. because
congress would do nothing before the
even II it met i'm June. Con-
yressional lassitude before Christmas
has hpcorne foo sacred a tradfffon IN ba