Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1907 — Statesman Short of Cash. [ARTICLE]

Statesman Short of Cash.

Senators and Representatives, many whose possessions' run up into the millions »f dollars, are telling humorous tales of luancial embarrassment during the recent money stringency, “Just before coining to Washington,” laid Representative Lowden of Illinois, Dno of the wealthy men of the State, “I iropped into my favorite restaurant for luncheon. My bill was $4.80, and not having that amount of currency I signed the check. “ ‘Sorry, sor,’ said the waiter, ‘but the new rules require payments In cash.’ “I replied: ‘Surely you can’t expect me to pay cash when my bank in Chicago ioesn’t pay cash/” —Boston Transcript.