Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
STATUS OF EMICRANT|
Irish Courts Busy Solving Perplexing
Problem.
QUESTION OF RIGHT TO VOTE
Election Battle Often Fought Out by
Lawyers.
LISTS KNOWN ALMOST TO MAN
Member Of Parliament Said to Be
American Citizen.
GIANTS CAUsEwAY WILL REMAIN
American Syndicate Acquires Quarry
Rights in Its Vicinity, bat win
Not Destroy Historic
Place.
GIANTS CAUsEwAY WILL REMAIN


courts to the exclusion OF almost everything
else this year. The revision court is a
court held annually for the purpose OF re-
vising the register OF those entitled to vote
at parliamentary and local elections. and
in many districts where the parties are
equally divided the election battle is really
fought at these courts. Barring accidents
every qualified voter in a close district In
Ireland can be relied on to go to the polls
SO that once the revision Is completed the
politicians can tell 70 within half dozen
what the vote is going to be.
The question TO be decided in most Of the
cases OF returned emgrants is whether
they are American citizens or not. Most OF
them are proud enough OF their American
citizenship and boast Of It loudly their
return TO the old country. but when they
are caught once more in the whirl OF home
politics and desire to take their part in
the elections, they find II convenient to for
get their American naturalization. The
most remarkable of these cases which has
come before the courts, Is that Of Mr.. r.
g. Glendinnlng. liberal NJ. p. for North
Antrim, whose vote was objected TO by the
conservative agent at the Belfast court.
Mr.. Glendinning is linen manufacturer,
whose father emigrated to America when
he was a very small boy There is no
ming became an American citizen. He
voted and took leading part in politics
IN Brooklyn. and 1t was stated by the con-
servative agent that the younger Glendin-
ming also exercised his rights as an Amer
lean citizen on the strength of his fathers
naturalization.
Name on voters List.
Eventually, Glendinning. jr.. returned to
ireland, entered Irish politics and In time
became an NJ. p. No one ever questioned
his qualification before. and the revision
Judge this year decided that there was not
enough evidence as to the law and the
facts regarding Glendinning's American
citIzcnship to jdstHy him in striving his
name off the voters list. Such action
would. OF course, be equivalent 10 depriv-
Ing him Of his seat In Parliament.
II Is interesting in this connection to
note that England is the only country
which recognizes American or other foreign
naturalization to the extent of treating
the ex-subject os an alien on his return
: to his native land. A Frenchman or Ger
man who has been naturallsed in a for.
eign country may resume his status as a
French or German subject at once on his
return, but English subject who has
been naturallzed abroad is in exactly the
position OF an alien immigrant He must
reside the required term of years and go
through all the formalities required for the
naturalization of aliens.
Patriotic Irishmen have had another scare
by newspaper announcement that an
American syndicate had bought the Giants
Causeway. that remarkable formation in
County Antrim which is familiar TO all
tourists, and was about to break Il up for
road metal Fortunately the report, as
Mark Twain said about his death Is
grossly exaggerated. What has happened
is that a syndicate In which Irish and
American capitalists are interested have
secured lease OF a large tract OF land
behind the causeway and stretching some
distance inland. This tract is composed
of rock of the same formation-columnar
bssalt. as the Causeway-and II Is pro-
posed to establish a chain OF quarries
stretching from Portrush TO Ballycastle
Basalt Best Road Metal.
Extensive tests have shown that the
columnar bassdt when crushed makes an
ideal road metal. and that the columns
themselves are the best known materials
for seawans and other building purposes
Employment VIII be given to about 200 peo-
pie regularly and thus instead OF destroy.
ing a great natural wonder. the syndicate
WIN be establishing a useful and much
needed industry in the north OF Ireland.
An Interesting find has recently beer
made during the demolition OF an olt
house at Marshalsea lane Dublin, in which
II was known that a number of Robert
Emmets followers lived. II consists OF q
number Of old swords and scabbardi
which. x has been established, were made
by Mayfield who carried on business II
Dublin up to 1900 and who made most o
the weapons used by Emmet and his men
The swords are IN an excellent state o.
preservation and are as sharp and keen a.
on the day they were forged Some Dublii
antqraries are Of the opinion that amonl
them may be the sword used by Emme
himself The swords are rather shortei
than the type in general use at that perioS
and were made so. that they might b,
concealed under the long eloaks then worn
sane People in Asylum.
4 surprising state OF affairs has beel
disclosed by a complaint made by the med
ical officer at a recent meeting OF tn
management committee OF the Richmon
district iunatic asylum at Dublin. Tn
doctor complained that the asylum wa
overcrowded because OF the large numbe
OF old people who had been committed, II
reported that these old people could by n
etretph Of the Imagination be classed a
Sstsane. They were simply unable to car
for themselves on account OF the infirmi
ties Of age. and rather than provide prope
attention for them the poor law su.hori
ties had sent them from the work -house
20 the lunatic asylum. The condition q
these unfortunate old people confined wit
al kinds OF lunatics can be imagined. an
the committee decided that they must b
removed at once, as much for their ow
sakes as TO make room for the proper car
Of the real lunaties. The work-hous
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proper provision for them, and a drasti
tpo,,fr,, vyiii he made 10 dIsoover who