Show I r INTERSTATE COMMISSIONERS I I Sketches of 2Icssrs 15rag Walker and I I SchooumaLcr I I The threo new men on the interstate raU1 I icad commission new in the sense of not I being so well known as Messrs Cooler and i illonisoii are Bragg Walker and Sthoon i maker but each of the threa has acquired ac-quired so high a t I loputation in his I own state especial espe-cial as railroad lawyer that the apiroiitinents are generally considered i consid-ered favorably IS Gen Walter L Bragg the only southern man on the commission born in S was Alabama Alaba-ma in 183S but was soon after taken to WTAITEU L BRAGG Arkansas where he remained till after the war except for tho time ho was in Harvard university At tho clOSe of the war he settled in his native stite in thin practice prac-tice of law and in 181 was made president of tho Alabama state railroad commission His acts in this capacity were highly seLls factory to the people but not so much EO to the railroad companies which made a sharp fight against his appointment on the national commusion He is an active Democrat Aldate F Valter is a native of Vermont where ho hits 111I1aII1 great fame IlS 8 railroad rail-road lawyer especially espe-cially su counsel for the Vcimont anl Canada road He is also the author 5 of the bill paKSM in 1SSO by the Ver 5 in out legislature providing for i 5 S state railroad commission com-mission Ho en tered tho Union i 5 army in 1801 as II S k lieutenant andS and-S came out a lieutenant lieuten-ant colonel w ith a ALDACn F WALKER severe wound which still causes a little lameness He hi represented his strict in the state senate and is an ardent Republican Augustus Sshoo imaker was born in Ulster county N Y in 1623 and became very active in politics poli-tics before he was of voting age For ten years ho was school trustee and Imyer then for eight years county judge j of Ulster county In 1875 he was elected to tho state senate In 1877 ho was elected attorney general for the state by a majority of 11541 over Lyinan Tre A cnOOS1IAhEI iiinme Republican In 1S79 he was defeated for the same ofiire by Hamilton Ward lIe is an active Democrat and has ben prominent in many conventions of the party both state and national |