district and passed upon the quali- for their expenses in actions against fications, physically and mentally, them; relative to notices of meetof all the recruits who soughtings of religious corporations; proplaces in the various regiments viding that railroads shall be built which were enlisted in the southern within a certain time after their intier of counties. corporation.

surgeon.

Theodore Koehler.

Theodore Koehler, Democrat, who represents the Second Senate dis

30, 1856, in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, and is thirty-nine years of age. He was the first born of six children, and received his early education in the schools of Ahrensboeck and Luebeck. At the age of fifteen he entered upon his apprenticeship in one of the largest business houses in Luebeck, and remained there five years, when he was seized with an irresistible desire to join the army, and volunteered as a sharpshooter in the Emperor's service, though he had not yet attained his majority.

In 1861, Benjamin F. Tracy, later Secretary of the Navy Department, then a struggling young lawyer of Oswego, was appointed colonel of the One Hundred and Ninth New trict, Queens county, was born July York State Volunteers. He and Dr. Johnson became warm friends, and when the regiment took the field Dr. Johnson went along as assistant He was soon promoted to a full surgeoncy, and when Colonel Tracy was made commander of. the Third Brigade, Dr. Johnson became the chief of the brigade's medical corps. In that capacity he served untif the surrender of General Lee. Dr. Johnson then returned home and resumed the active practice of his profession at Waverly. He early became interested in politics and strove to re-elect Thomas C. Platt as United States Senator in 1881. In 1888 Dr. Johnson was a Presidential Elector and voted for Benjamin Harrison for President.

Dr. Johnson was elected a Senator by 15,135 votes. His Democratic opponent, William H. Cannon, received 1,613 votes; and Deloss Freeman, Prohibitionist, 267. Senator Johnson is Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs; and also a member of the Committees on Taxation and Retrenchment and of Public Health.

At this time he received a very urgent letter from an old friend and schoolmate to come to the United States and meet him in Philadelphia. Filled with the vision of the wealth to be acquired in the New World, he applied for his release. It was granted, but left him somewhat in the plight of the hero of Edward Everett Hale's story, "The Man Without a Country." He was allowed the period of six months to find a home in another country, failing in which he would be subjected to the rigorous treatment to which a German who has not served in the army is liable.

Senator Johnson, in 1896, introduced the following bills of interest: For the correction of illegal assessFortune at last smiled upon him, ments for town improvements; and he finally attained a position amending the Public Officers Law for which his birth, education and with regard to village assessors; early training fitted him. providing for the filing of the names of the real persons engaged in a business; reimbursing public officials

He is now engaged, with a competent force of assistants, in an examination of the accounts of Long