Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — Close Senators. [ARTICLE]

Close Senators.

Indeed, very few Congressmen “entertain” in the sense in which the term is used. David Davis, who was six years in the Senate and fifteen years on the Supreme bench, always lived at a second-class hotel here and saved money on his salary. He is several times a millionaire, and for many years before he left Washington he had no family. He was beyond doubt, considering his great wealth, the closest man ever in public life. He would dispute with the woman at the pie-stand in the hall of the Senate over the price of an apple. During the last session of his Presidency of the Senate, however, he branched out a little, and every Saturday night gave a big dinner at Welckers’s. Another very close man in the Senate was poor, great big, babynatured, sweet-tempered McCreary, of Kentucky, now dead. He lived in the cheapest place he could find in Georgetown, three or four miles distant from the Capitol, and had a pass* on the street-cars. On the occasion of a late session of the Senate, when the street-cars had stopped, he would walk the whole distance at any time between 12 o’clock and daybreak, no matter how the weather was, rather than pay 50 cents for a carriage. For luncheon he would eat a stick of candy, unless some one asked him to join in something more substantial in the Senate restaurant. At such times his appetite was most healthy.— Washington Cor. Philadelphia Tress.