The age-herald., 1902-02-03
Millionaire Pork Butchers About to
 Win Battle Against Wcrkingmen.

son was courteous. even cordial. and un- dertook to allow the Congressman to ''cateh the speakers eye" But it became necessary twice afterwards to remind Henderson of his kindly expressed pur- pose as to recognition of the member on the floor. and each time the great man was generous in regret and promise, but nothing came of it. Upon the fourth visit to Henderson in his room in the Capitol, the Congressman asked:
 MT. Speaker, what about my billT' 'eWhat bill?' Henderson asked grossly.
 'The bill I wished to call up, and which I have several times explained to you, and about which you were so kind"
 "Oh. I am opposed to that-I can't en- certain the proposition for moment" Henderson said resentfully.
 The Congressman walked out. and since then he has spread the story amongst his colleagues. Yet the man who practices that sort of double-dealng is the most powerful person but one in the Republic.
 It will be recalled that on the occasion of his public reception in Montgomery two or three years ago, Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson undertook to present to the state some masts, taken from Spanish warships, to be erected on the grounds of the state capitol. The treasury and war department held that the masts were not the property of Captain Hobson, but of the government; and Congressman Wiley l has introduced a bill in the House which | uiobo in effect.
 The Wiley bill provides that the lower mast taken by Capt Richmond P. Hob- son of the United States navy from the captured Spanish battlesnip Don Juan d'Austria, at Manila, and the top mast from the Almirante Oquendo, at Santiago | de Cuba, be, and the same are hereby, donated by the United States to the state of Alabama, to be used in the erection of a flagstaff on the capitol grounds of said state as perpetual memorial to the value of the American navy" and that the state of Alabama be reimbursed tho expense of transporting said masts from the navy yeard at Brooklyn and Norfolk, respectively, to Montgomery, Ala, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated" Colonel Wiley will urge the passage of his bill and Is confident of success. His success will be pleasing to Alabamians generally, for great historic interest at | taches to the masts.
 Washington society is agog-whatever | that means-over the marriage of MT. AlnhAhnf Op1lUfo a Ia fn Alphabet Harman. To express 1t other wise, the Right Hon." Robert Walter Findlater Ogilvie, Lord of Banff." Scot land, was welded to Miss Irma Sule Bledsoe Deska Harman, ''youngest daughter of the late Colonel Bledsoe Har- man of Kentucky and of Mary Loftin. a former famous belle of Tennessee"
 That is all right except where it is all wrong. Neither the belle of right hon. orable nor Lord of Banff can in law. usage or stretch of courtesy be applied to MT. Ogilvie, whom the newspapers are today calling Lord" Ogilvie and concerning whose marraige they are printing interminable rubbish
 MT. Ogilvie enjoys the courtesy title of honorable, the same in form as thous- ands of Americans enjoy, but the courtesy to him is by law and is legally protect ed in Great Britain. Only the sons and daughters of some peers below the ranR or earl, which Is third from the highest in the peerage, and some gentlemen and ladies of honor attached to the court are entitled to the distinction honora- ble. The sons of earls, marquises and dukes are lords by courtesy and the daughters ladies. The distinction of right honorable in Great Britain is confined solely to those who are or have been privy councillors or cabinet ministers, and in many instances a man is both councillor and minister. The privy coun- cil differs very materially from the cabi- net inasmuch as it is the inner council of the sovereign and is presided over gen. orally by the sovereign in person. and in the sovereign's absence by the Lord Chancellor, Keeper of the Kings Con- science" and president or chairman of the House of Lords. In our time the sovereign has not been even present at a meeting, though cabinet ministers are literally and in legal phraseology 'the kings minister's" Possibly in referring to the Hon. MT. Ogilvie as Lord Of Bauff' the courtesy title of lord has been confused with the common Scotch cour- tesy title of laird. which is applied to any and every landed proprietor great and small, and to none but such proprie- tors. A truck farmer in Scotland, if he owns the land he tils. is a laird. MT. Ogilvie is apparently the proprietor, that is, laird, of an estate called Banff, which may be near the country town of that name in Banffshre.
 Another Scotch country title is Master, which is held by but very few nowadays. and they are sons of peers. Steyenson's story, ''The Master of Ballantrae' is based upon the historic title. If MT. Ogilvie is heir to a lord of Banff he himself cannot bear that title unless he be the son of peer having two or more tj- ties.
 There are nearly six hundred peers of Great Britain, and numerous men who are merely peers of Scotland or of Ire land and not entitled to sit in the House of Lords. Every one of these three classes is by law entitled to be called lord. while all the bishops of the Church of England and all the high court judges