this regiment (the Thirty-fourth Examining Surgeons for Pensions United States Colored Troops) that the incident referred to above occurred. in Brooklyn. He is also a member of the Kings County Medical Society, the Brooklyn Pathological Society, a delegate to the State Medical Society, consulting surgeon to the Bedford Dispensary, and consulting physician to the Bushwick Hospital, a member of the Kings County Republican Committee, and other clubs. He is Chairman of the Public Health Committee of the Senate, a member of the Committee on Military Affairs and the Committee on Cities. A few years after returning to Brooklyn, he began the study of medicine and graduated from the Long Island College Hospital in 1876, since which time he has practiced his profession. He has also found time to interest himself in charitable and church work. For twenty-five years a member of Plymouth Church, he served as a member of the board of deacons and superintendent of the Sunday School, and has continued in similar lines of work in the Central Congrega-viding for the abatement of nui tional Church, of which he is now a member. He is married and has one son. He has been an interested student of political affairs and an earnest advocate of higher and purer standards and methods. He called the first conference at his house, which resulted in the now famous "Committee of One Hundred." He has always been an ardent supporter of the Republican party, and when in 1894 the nomination to the Assembly came to him entirely unsought, he felt it a matter of duty to accept it, although at considerable personal sacrifice, and was elected by a plurality of nearly nine hundred in a Democratic district. He is a member of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the Republic, being a member of the Grant Post of Brooklyn, and was one of the guard of honor at Mt. McGregor at the funeral of General Grant. He was for two years assistant surgeon of the Thirteenth Regiment, N. G., S. N. Y., and for four years, 18901894, President of the Board of Senator Brush in 1896 introduced the following interesting bills: Pro sances on Newtown creek on Long Island; authorizing a resubmission of the question of the consolidation of New York and Brooklyn to the voters in those cities; amending the charter of Brooklyn relative to charitable purposes and in regard to the government of hospitals; repealing the laws relative to mining liscoveries; establishing a training school for boys in Brooklyn; providing for a division of the department of public works of Brooklyn; concerning judicial sales in Brooklyn; incorporating the Pharmaceutical Society of Brooklyn; regulating and lowering telephone charges; making married women the guardians of their children; in relation to the Institute of Arts and Sciences; concerning the jurisdiction of the Superintendent of the Insurance Department; concerning the improvement of the City Hall of Brooklyn. James Irving Burns. James Irving Burns, who represents the Twenty-second district, which consists of the county of Westchester, was born in Biddeford, Maine, on August 10, 1843. He was educated at Colgate Univer |