The age-herald., 1902-03-06
Story of Force Bill as Cleaned
 From Senatorial Records.


 busy as a bee in June time.
 Dr. Hannis Taylor, if you please-for he is many times a doctor of laws and doctor of civil law. Oxford Cambridge, Edinburgh Harvard, Yale, Alabama, and many other famous universities hav- ing so honored him-is now arranging the seventh edition of his monumental his- tory of the English constitution, which has been for years accepted as the stan dard authority upon that absorbingly in- teresting traditional organic law which for more than ten centuries England has been patiently framing.
 My publishers have asked for sev- enth edition of English constitution and they shall have it." Dr. Taylor said in that provokingly indifferent manner of his concerning his own work, which in this particular has never been equalied.
 While Dr. Taylor was our minister at Madrid he received the highest honors which the University of Oxford Cam bridge and Edinburgh could confer, and that means a great deal in the world of learning. Those renowned universities accepted his work on the English const- tuition as standard, and two years ago the famous University of Dublin took similar action, the faculty adopting his book over all others and the senate of the university confering upon him the doctor ship of laws, with the cap and gown of that eminent degree.
 Dr. Taylor will travel to Dublin next June to receive his degree, and from Dublin will proceed to London to witness the corona ion of King Edward. After wards he will make a round of visits to friends, including those at the great uni versailles which have so greatly honored him.
 While honorary degrees from colleges and universities in this country are often given without discrimination and are in the main little respected by the public, 1t is radically different with the universi- ties of the old world. Doctor of laws from Oxford, for example, is something more than mere distinction--it is illustrious. And the honors from the great foreign universities given to pr. Hannis Taylor are honors that should touch the pride of all of his fellow Alabamians.
 Dr. Taylor's new work. which deals with international law, Is already phenomen- ally successful amongst scholars, lawyers and students of that absorbing theme It is held to be an even greater work than his English Constitution" and there is every promise that it will be accepted as standard in Europe as well as in Ameri- ca. Justice Brown of the United States Supreme Court has written Dr. Taylors publishers that he considers 1t the most complete exposition of International law ever published, and dozens of the most eminent men of this country have writ ten in similar notes of commendation. It is the first American book on inter- national law since the familiar "Wheaton's Digest" was published in 1s66 though Dr. Wharton, late of the state department edited compilation of such law fifteen years ago, which was sent to all American consuls to be placed with "Wheaton's" for their guidance. Most probably Dr. Taylor's work will be adopted by the state department which alone would call for about two thousand volumes.
 Inasmuch as this work applies to all na- tions, it will win for Dr. Taylor an even wider measure of fame than he has won by his English Constitution "The good Hannis" deserves it all-deserves all the good things that can make for his we'll being in the world.
 Speaking of that particular Alabamian of wide fame as scholar and historian, Dr. Taylor 1t is of more than passing inter- n Claytons recent eulogy on the late Con gressman Robert Emmett Burke of Texas, who was a native of Alabama. MT. Clayton referred to Senator Culberson of Texas, who was born in Tallapoosa Coun- ty, and of his distinguished father, the late David B. Culberson, for many year a Congressman from Texas, who was reared and married in the same Alabama county; to the present Congressman Shep- pard of Texas who was born in Chambers County; and then he (Mr. Clayton) pro- ceeded to say of other Alabmians in Texas that "A roll call of the great men whose deeds and names enter so largely into the history of Texas would bring in review the lives and characters of many native sons of Alabama. Let me mention Patrick c. Jack, the leader of the first attempt at revolution, in 1892, and a famous orator and patriot; William H. Jack. his brother. and equally distinguished; Moscley Baker, a renowned soldier and statesman of the republic of Texas and Sam Houston's bit terest enemy; Peter w. Grayson, great judge, who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the republic of Texas, and afterwards of the state of Texas; Richard Ellis, president of the conven- tion that declared Texas independence and formed the first constitution of that public; R. R. Royal chairman of the Consultation" in 1885; Pendleton Mur- rah, Governor of that state from 1863 to 1865; A. J. Hamilt on, provisional Governor in 1866. and perhaps the unrivaled forensic orator in the annals of Texas, and who served in Congress in 1859; George F. Moore, chief justice of the Supreme Court, and now distinguished professor of law in the University of Texas. Add to these Abner S. Lipscomb, though born in South Carolina, was reared in Alabama. where he was at one time chief justice of the Supreme Court, and, after removal to Texas, was on the Supreme Court bench there for many years, and was one of the ablest of her judges Let me not omit the name of Oran M. Roberts, who was born in South Carolina, but brought up in