Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — Other Professions of Our Congressmen [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Other Professions of Our Congressmen

SENATOR STEPHEN B. ELKINS Of West Virginia, rated as a multimillionaire, has arisen In protest against the current lists showing the wealth of the men who make up the "American house of lords.” One of the latest of these lists, printed a few days ago, set down Senator Guggenheim of Colorado at 660,000,000. Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin came second with 630,000,(WO and Senator Elkins was put third with a modest 636,000,000. "Discount those figures by >0 per seat," said Senator Elkina tn all serioasnees. as bo surveyed the names of hie very rich colleagues, "and they

will be more nearly correct. It Is the honest truth that many of the men listed in the senate by these writers as worth all the way from |1,000,000 to >60,000,000 each would be willing to take ten per cent.-»of these estimates in cash to-day.” Another senator, probably as rich as Mr. Elkins, but who would not allow his name to bo used, declares that fully one-fourth of the 92 senators have little else than their salaries of 37,500 a year. Another fourth of the 92 have somewhere between >20,000 and 350,000. Tho personal fortunes of another quarter of the senate range between 350,000 or >60,000 and >500,000. Most of this class of twenty-odd, the senator thought, were Worth between >IOO,OOO and >200,000. The other quarter comprised senators all worth >500,000, and probably 10 or 13 only entitled to be called millionaires, not multimillionaires, but simply worth from >l,fiH,fito to |l«.00«.0H.