New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-04
POOR ON $500 A YEAR.
Representative Riordan Up in
Supplementary Proceedings.
JUDGMENT FOR $239 UNPAID
This Thing Of Being a Congress-
man." Says East Slider,
"Only Sounds Good"

When big Tim" Sullivan retired IT
the House OF Representatives TO 20 PACK I"
the State Senate this IL what was said pS
one OF the philosopbc constituents oil '"e
Bowery statesman: This thing OK DeinP
Congressman sounds good. but really 'hSie
is nothing in II. unless a man wants l" Oe
in Washington just as statesman D"'
II he ia there just because the Joo p"SS
$3.50 year. while in Albany the soioH'
receive only $3.50, then the deiuden one
ought 10 take correspondence course III
domestic economy"
And now the financial condition ~ Con
gresham Daniel J. Riordan, n tie ON
Congress District, to which he testinei yes
terday i'm the City Court, bears out inns
observation. He, too, has grown poor III
accepting $3.50 a year from Uncle sam
when he could have remained In Albany AZ
81 800 wear. the explanation OF the SEEM
ing paradox being alleged to ne mat '"e
Albany year is shorter than the "d9'''"s
ton wear and the fare is less.
Congressman Riordan. who rep'es 'fi's "
mart Of the lower East Side, went INTO us
financial standing yesterday In an eN@"i
ination In supplementary proceeuihs0
ing out Of a Judgment for S25s VINO" 'io' y
mer & Brown, A lawyer obtalhed as"i"'
him I'm June. 1910 in Brooklyn for PROBES
sional services.
The Congressman in answer % Iue""ol'
by G. w. Sinners. jr. counsel TOT tne ''''S
ment creditor, said that he was IN ths Ieai
estate business at No ia Centre street ,ils
home address IL al No. % oliver street -
said he never had a partner. ana tha' ioi
the last eight years he had Kept no o0"HH
in his business the reason being nc eN
plained that he had not made $40 IN an
those eight years in that business.
Salary Only Source Of Income
Congressman Riordan went on TO say
that he had been in the state Senate from
1902 10 1905 and then went TO congress.
With the exception Of the a.SOo ne receiver
az Senator and then the $500 as congress
man. which had been increased 10 s'v'''
he had no other regular source OF income
81 have received other money from
various sources during that period ne
added. "Out the amount has been SO smeh
as 10 be insignificant, as, for instance
little money from the renewal OF nre IN
surance policies, the remnant Of my former
real estate business
The office a. No Ia Centre street sdla
~. corerAssr7on was leased BY Justice
John Hover. IT the Municipal Court ana
Piordan had only part OF IT az s'c
month His last assessment Tor ONCE
spsce and expenses was $50. "hlch NJ mas
not Vet paid and he testified that ne owed
AZ least $3.50 for his office expenses.
Mr.. cimers asked Congressman KOREAN
~ II vas not true that that office was realy
an adjunct TO Tsmmany Hall.
mo. it is not Congressman Riordan re-
nlied Judge Hoyer is a municipal justice
and uses the office for business connected
mostly with his Judgeship and most OF MS
nrivate business. Assemblyman Smith tAi-
fred Smith. Democratic majority leader IN
the Assembly, uses II for the receipt or
mail. both public and private. and Mr..
Thomas z. Foley former Sheriff uses II
for his private business
Counsel wanted to know whether IT was
not so that the greater part OF the ousi-
ness transacted in the office at No. ia Cen
ire street was for increasing the ef1clency
of the Democratic organization in the Con-
gressman's district.
Not Used for Politics He Says.
NO. that also is not true" Riordan an
swered Il receive there proportonately
as many Of my political opponents as
do of my political friends
Mr.. Sinners went on 10 ask whether the
Congressman did not make the office his
political Headquarters during his cam
paigns The reply was that he never made
much of a canvas and that the only head
quarters he had were at the clubhouse OF
Mr. Riordan said he owned no real estate.
stocks. bonds or other securities, and that
whilo he had no bank account now, Yet
prior to eight years ago he had four bank
accounts Neither does he carry any life
insurance. not even in a fraternal order.
The Congressman testified that he re-
oeived a part Of the estate of his father on
the latter's death. but he assigned it 10
his wife He explained that he had no
judgments against him at the time, nor was
any action pending against him. Now he
has three unsatisfied judgments standing
against him. They total $500 and were
filed in 1902, 1903 and 1904. y receiver had
been asked for the Congressman's prop
crtv. but the application was denied by the
court
From his salary, said Congressman Rior-
dan, which Is now nls Only source OF IN
come, he pays his family expenses of 500
a month. The rest Of il, and more. he said
was used in his travelling expenses be-
tween New York and WASHINGTON and his
living expenses at the capital The wit
ness said in answer 10 further questions
thar he was one OF the executors of his
fathers estate, but that he had received
no commission from that source, nor had
he filed his accounting as executor
The order for the supplementary eXami-
nation was served on the Congressman on
July IS Since that date. he said, he had
,pent SIS which he borrowed. The eXami-
alton is TO he continued.