The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-29

grey or white wigs. I heard very
witty and yet learned speeches from.
three Of the prominent men. They
were Captain Ernest George Pretty
man, of Essex, Harold Cox, remark
ably sharp orator, of Preston, and the
great Sir VIM. Snowdon Robson, K c.,
the Attorney General. OF course it
was worth While to hear such celebrat-
ed legislators discussing, as they were,
the Expense Budget 1t is attracting
as much attention here as the Payne
Tariff Bill does in the United States.
Sitting by the side of the attorney
general and warmly supporting him, |
saw England's Prime Minister great
est man next to King Edward. He is
called the First Lord of the Treasury,
the Right Honorable Herbert Il.
Asquith. Inc three speakers were of
such type as to provoke the greatest
enthusiasm on the part Of their re-
spective supporters. Of course no one
in the gallery would dare whisper an
approval. But the members sitting
there with their silk hats on, or off,
as it sometimes happened, would al
ways voice their approval or disap,
proval, but not often the latter. Once,
however, as Mr. Cox seemed to be a
trife sarcastic on Ireland, an Irishman
arose and, as / understood him, very
nearly passed the lie. But as to the
approval. Instead of ciapping hands
or cheering as it is in American base
ball, the members shout, Hear!
Hear! and repeat it over and over in
as loud tone as the remark or the
enthusiasm seems to warrant. In the
House of Commons are 461 members.
Imagine say two hundred of those
hoarse throated men shouting, "Hear!
Heart" and you can family conceive
of the type of noise made. The only
word to fairly represent it is roar and
that is why the word is used in de-
scribing a noise made by an assem-
blage of Englishmen. I sat there
until eight o'clock and then passed
out, well pleased with the novel and
most delightful experience.
Let me give the reader an idea of
the number of titled men in England
and who, | suppose, constitute what is
called the House Ct Lords. There are
three peers of royal blood, the Prince
of Wales and Dukes of Ionnaught and
Albany, two arch bishops, twenty-five
dukes, twenty-three marquises, one
hundred and twenty-four earls, forty
two viscounts, twenty-four bishops,
three hundred and thirty FIVE barons,
sixteen Scotch peers and twenty-eight
Irish peers Very many of these titled
personages are unmarried and SO it
appears there are still opportunities
LII dLlD1UlOuS AulGl ldQlCS W dC-
quire the dignity of title, should they
succeed in interesting some of these
unattached members Of the House of
Lords.
In closing, let me refer to the most
interesting feature of the session
above described. The speakers when
they wished to clinch, unanswerably,
any of their statements, would refer
to some feature of the assessment
methods and taxation procedure in
| New York One referred to Ohio law
and one to California s system Of do
| ing things. | noted with intense
pleasure the fact that whatever was
done in America to raise money seem
ed to pass as the perfectly proper
thing without any question in the minds
of all the Commoners. I regarded it
as the highest possible compliment
when their enthusiastic, Hear! Hear;
rang through the chamber.