NOT ALL MILLIONAIRES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9814, 25 August 1897, Page 6

NOT ALL MILLIONAIRES.

3he United Stites Senate h r.om mnr i and with some re.-.son, described a, »T Millionaires' Club." But there are 1 notable and honourable exception, rule which makes -millions" a „eceJ qualification for membership of that aS crat.c body. Tlie late Senator V Q rK of India, was one exception. Senator Vo hees term of office expired on the flrh last March. One week before this date was talking with a brother Senator-ill wise a poor raw, and about to W*> Senate-regarding their future prospect* Hie other Senator, who wstill alive,£ j 1 have been in political life for the thi of a century. Of course 1 have lost all old law practice, and it will b e all bu- j possible to get it back again. TheVn thing I can do is to go br.el; home, work my garden, and raise enough vegetables feed my family." Then Senator Voorii said : "1 have no home to go to I hay« garden to work ~., and I haven't enou money to pay my expenses there if I v! one I have been in public life since 18 —36 years—l am 72 years old, and rll t mon»y I have is in my pocket this motninr Senators Gorman unci Allison, who heard this conversation some days later, at on raised a fund to support their old friend ai colleague—one of the most eloquent men wl ever sat in the Senate. But two da before tho fund was completed, and befo Senator Voorhees knew that it was beii raised, death carried the old Senator bevoi the reach, as well as the necessity, oft