United States Government Officials Finances

New financial disclosures by senators who aspire to be President depict Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) holding a $14,000 collection of presidential autographs, Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) receiving more than $118,000 in speaking fees from special interest groups and Sen. Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.) possessing $80,000 in zinc mineral rights. They also show Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) owning scarcely more than a house, Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) making huge stock transactions and Sen.

Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) more than quadrupled his $75,100 congressional salary and Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) nearly tripled his with other income they and their wives received last year, according to 1986 tax returns made available to The Times Wednesday. The disclosures were made at a time when elected officials, responding to concerns about possible conflict of interest between public duty and private gain, increasingly are opening their personal finances to scrutiny.