The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-29
DISTRICT BOARD
new DEMOCRATS
FROM PAGE ONE.

District committee last Congress, di-
recting a searching Investigation or
taxation and assessment methods in the
District and framing and introducing a
bill calling for recodification of the
taxation laws with sweeping changes
in methods of assessment. The bill was
not acted upon during the Sixty-second
Congress, and probably Will be re-intro-
duced with some changes and passed at
the next session. Mr.. George suffered
nervous breakdown last winter and has
been abroad recovering his health since
February. He will return to New York
June TO- and is expected to reach WASH
ington shortly thereafter
Konir Seriously Ill.
George KONG, OF Baltimore, may not
live to resume his duties on the District
Committee. He is in critical condition
from pneumonia KONG was one of the
many members of the District Committee
in the last Congress who gave little in
dication of interest in the work He lives
in Baltimore and seldom, If ever, APP
peared at a meeting of the committee.
Denis O'Leary halls from Queens
County, New York. He is a lawyer by
profession and has been Justice Of the
Peace of the town of North Hampstead,
assistant District Attorney of Queens
County assistant corporation counsel of
Queens Borough. and commissioner of
public works of the borough.
William l.. Igoe Is from St Louis, and
is the senior member of one Of the lead
ing law firms there. He was elected to the
Missouri House of Delegates in 1909. and
resigned in 1913 to take his seat in Con-
gress.
Claude rEngIe is a Jacksonville, Fla,
man. He declares that he still is trying
to get an education. After thirteen years
in the mercantile business, he declares
in his autobiography, he entered the
newspaper business in 1901, only to be
forced out because of attacks upon spe-
cial interests. He is now publishing his
third venture in the journalistic field.
weekly paper. which he believes will
succeed. This is his first public office.
Brcmner n COsmopOIitc.
Robert Gum Bremner lives in Passalc.
n. ]. He is a Scot by birth and Jer-
seyite by training or habit or accident.
enc of the three. In experience he is
somewhat of a ''cosmopOlite,' as he re-
ceived his education in Canada before
settling in Jersey.
His autobiography relates that he was
a carpenter and electrician in New York.
a reporter in Paterson. y. J.. bnth ne
fore and after serving short term en-
listment for the SDIlisa-Am arir an war.
In 1902 he took control OF the Passaic
Daily Herald and is still its editor and
publisher. To quote his autobiography.
he never ran for office until. Against
his will. he was practira ~ unanimously
nominated for the SiNt"-shird Congress"
kindel of Colorado. a. ne is widely
known throughout the Middle West.
gained fame by virtre of twent,-Cne
ear fight in " courts aG.tin>l the rail
roads. because Of discriminating freight
rat = against Cloradn and nearby StaisS.
He is manufacturer "f mattresses
and upholSterinC. He declares that his
election provides conclusively that the
people Of Colorado are wide awake to
the needs of fair and equitable transpor-
tation.
The remaining five Democrats and the