The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-22
Closing Arguments In Spanish
War Claims Suits.

successful Mr.. Taylor may be as an ad-
vocate before a court of jurisdiction
created to consider claims amounting in
the grand total of 100000 against the
American government and growing out
of the war between this government and
spain. The main point In law is a liabil-
ity for damages done by insurrectionary
movements. Mr.. Taylor has already pre-
scented his printed brief. On the Bird of
June ne will deliver orally his views re-
garding the claim filed against our gov
eminent, amounting, in the first instance,
to the s25.00O.0Oo aforementioned. If Mr..
Taylor succeeds, as those who are best
acquainted with the facts believe he will
succeed, he will take his place as the
greatest practitioner. as well as writer.
of international law in the great nations
of the world.
Therefore, upon Mr.. Carlisle's arg1i-
ment of June and Mr. Taylor's closing
argument of June 3, there rests greater
international interest than has ever rest
ed upon any one case at trial by law. If
Mr. Taylor wins for the United States. he
wins for our government not only the $685.
100000 primarily involved. but perhaps
a greater sum incidentally involved. He
has fully prepared himself, and his
friends and the government as well, are
most hopeful of the final issue. Every
American is interested in the result of
this trial. and sympathetically, all south
erners are involved in that battle of the
giants, Hannis Taylor against John G.
Carlisle. The consummate ability of
neither of these is questioned by any man.
Mr.. Carlisle long ago won his surpris-
ingly great reputation before all the peo-
pie. Mr.. Taylor is now called upon to win
before a court that distinction which he
has already won with all lawyers and
students Of International law. So all the
people of all the states of our Union,
and every cabinet In Europe, are involved
IN the Issue of the argument which Mr.
Taylor will close on the Srd of June, and
which the court of Spanish claims COM
missioners will determine upon immedi-
ately thereafter.
Speaking of international affairs. we
have had here in Washington great
speeches from Mr.. William Redmond and
Mr.. Devlin, Irish home rule members
of Parliament. Each of these representa-
tive Irishmen is a great orator, and he
who presided over the meeting at which
they delivered their speeches was Senator
Hoar. the greatest exponent of American
ism that we now have In public life. Sem
ator Hoar can make a greater Amer
now lives amongst us. Amongst those
who spoke with him upon the platform
was the Rev. DR.. d. ]. Stafford, the first
young Catholic and the first pulpit orator
In America
This great meeting in Washington, at
which the cause of the Beers and the
cause of home rule for ireland was pre-
scented, serves to recall the fact that the
other day there was opened in the ancient
Irish city of Cork by Prince Henry, the
only brother of the German Emperor,
whom we recently entertained in Ameri-
ca, an international exhibition, the great
est of its kind Ireland has ever had And
Cork Is the most intensely Irish of all the
large cities of Ireland. The fact that DR..
Redmond represents In the British Par
lament Tory constituency adds more
than ordinary interest to his tour of this
The day which brought Mr.. Redmond
and Mr.. Devlin to the national capital
brought news of the tragic death of one
of the most popular and well-beloved
Corkmen Of our times. Mr. Charles Har-
vey, whom everybody in Cork. home
ruler and anti-home-ruler, Tory and Lib
eral' Catholic and non-Catholic, loved
was found drowned in what the poet
called THE pleasant waters of the River
Lee Mr.. Harvey was found dead within
the shadow of the Bells of Shandon, and
we all of us remember how beautifully
the poet-priest of South Ireland, Father
Prout. sung of Shandon Bells, and how
exquisitely William Black the novelist,
dwelt upon those famous bells.
THE Bells of Shandon, they sound so
grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee"
Mr.. Harvey was and had been for many
years the secretary of the Royal Cork
Yacht Club, the oldest club in the world
'Ai'N oiiO VI 'he must AdLiouS. AS ne walked
up the street of St. Patrick, and on
through the Grand Parade and down the
South Mall, every one for these thirty
years gave him happy greeting after the
happy Irish custom. The only news that
comes to us is that Mr.. Harvey was
found drowned. There never lived a bet
ter man, there never died, even in Ire
land, one more true, more brave, more
BY his death Ireland.
the isle of the Saints" has lost one of
its best men. One could not listen to Mr..
Redmond, Mr.. Devlin Senator Hoar and
the sanity DR.. Stafford withou. recalling
the SURPRISING virtues of Charlie" Har-
vey. One could not listen to the bursts
Of marvellous eloquence heard in that
81 eat meeting for the cause of Ireland, in
Washington, without in his heart weeping
FOR that noble Irishman, died before his
time. Whatever Charlie" Haryey's
views respecting politics or religion may
have been. none ever knew him but to
love him with all the generous abundance
Of the human heart. Whilst his distin-
guished compatriots were talking of the
beloved land that is forever green. whilst
they told the old, old story here in Wash
ngton, all those present who ever knew
charlie Harvey were sad that one of
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