The Washington times., 1915-12-06
Marked MOdeSty Seen
Among. New Solons
Congressional Directory Shows Less Effusiveness
Park of Georgia Most Brief, While Senator du
Pont Is Chief Space Consumer.

Indiana when lad ito grow M with
"Uncie Joer cannon's biography is
snpe sSts 81 ,hs s 6seet'In tscs s6st 70 swsnt
lawyer.
Elected BY Farmers.
Harry e. Hull. Republican. OF Iowa,
says no had oT,ly ten days to make his
campaign as the successor Of the late
Mr.. Pepper, end that he made q run
that was accented by the whole coun-
try as proof of how the farmers would
vote and OF the weakness OF the Pro-
David II. KincheIoe. OF MadisonviHe,
KY. proudly snys he Is MARRIED ard
has one girl now seven and half
WhitmelI PuRh Martin labels himself
as a ''Erogresaive-Protoc from
Louisiana and adds thar e1e Is tho first
Eon-Democratlo- member to be elected
from that State within twenty-five
A note OF tragedy is contained in tine
brief autobiography Of /, CONGRESSMAN
Thomas d. Sch3ll. OF Minnesota, who
says that he lost his eyesiEht because
OF an electric shock IN 1907. but has
continued in the practice OF the pro-
feselon OF law.
The sixty-fourth Congress has two
blind members-senator Gore and Mr..
Schall.
Edward II. wason, OF New Hamp-
shire. ~ one OF the many farmers list
ed in the directory. but he asserts he
takes a pride in farming and has a
large herd Of registered Guernsey cat
tle he has a modern. up-to-date farm. I"
Frederick w. Rowe, now member
from Brooklyn. lists many civic or
ganizations with which he is affiliated.
intendent of ST. Paul's Sunday school,"
Only One Clergyman.
1t appears that Congressman Temple
OF Pennsylvania, reelected. is the only
minister among the House members.
William Barclay Charles. Of Amster-
dam. N. z, records that he Is a mem-
ber OF the Second Presbyterian Church
Mahion n. Garland. of Pittsburgh.
drove mules on canal-bost towpath
when he was only fourteen years old.
Congressman Warren Worth Bailey.
OF PENNSYLVANIA, says he has been n
tireless advocate Of the single tax since
he read Progress and Poverty" in 1Ys3.
He knew Henry George personally. Mr..
Jeff McLemore. Of Houston, Tex. as
serts that he Is "a bachelor and a news
paper man." Tie also rrosDected for
Mr.. McLemore also says that he had
but little schooling because OF his aver
James Harvey Davis. of Sulphur
springs, TEX uses several lines 10 uS-
tail his lnbors for'the prohibition cause.
saying that he helped to outlaw in
over 100 Texas counties"
MIR. Davis also says he took a promi-
nent part in Organising the reform
forees OF the nation under Mr.. Bryan,
end was commissioned by the Demo-
cratic. Silver Republican and Populist
parties in 1900 to unite these forces for
Bryan. making about 300 speeches"
OF Many Vacations.
James II. Mays, Of Utah, records that
he was born among the mountain
whites" OF Tennessee. He had an in
, teresting campaign" he explains, get
ting q majority OF 16S out Of a total
vote Of 5000. -
Practically every vocation is repre-
sented in the directory. Lawyers, doc
tors. merchants. miners, capitalists
farmers, knitting mill graduates, school
teachers, newspaper reporters, former
soldiers, electricians and whatnot are
among the legislators.
With all that, the current issue is not
up to the standard for entertainment
In the good old days, before the news
paper men and the veterans became
Interested in the biographical offerings
Of the legislative recruits, there wore
many more self-written prose gems
Four years ago q new member ad'
mitted that his energy and ability was
the wonder Of his State, and that he
was famed as burner OF the mid.
night oil. stu another asserted thai
ne was married and lived with his
wife,"