The Washington herald., 1911-01-01
By EX-ATTACHE.

Since King Georges mighty empire of
India. with its population of 100000 900 of
natives is governed primarily from White
hall by the secretary Of state for India,
the personality of the statesman VINO
has just been appointed to succeed Lord
Morley, of Blackburn, in that Office, must
necessarily be of interest.
Lord Crewe has many claims on the
attention of Americans. At one period of
his life, both he and his father, the late
Lord Houghton, were much in the United
States, the earl being in those days
known as Robin" Mines, and his poems
figure in many a Washington library.
He was viceroy of Ireland during the
Gladstone home rule administration, and
now is leader of the government in the
House Of Lords As such he is compelled
to champion measures which virtually
threaten the existence Of the chamber of
which he is a member. Yet he accom-
plishes his task with SO much courtesy,
and tact that he has excited none of
the rancor displayed by the Unionist
peers against members of the AsQufth
cabinet notably Winston Churchill and
Iloyd-George. AS an instance of his
methods. the manner in which he moved
the second reading of the chancellor of
the exchequer's last budget, was charac-
teristic of the man.
The Unionist peers were impatient to
hear what one of their order could say in
support of a measure which the majority
Of them opposed Lord Crewe leaned for
ward. just raised his hat and moved
pro forma- There was no speech. Not
even a word: It was Lord Crews curt yet
polite way of telling the peers that the
discussion Of the budget was none Of their
business.
oIo xL4 ;ex~
publicly, in a speech at Winchester, dis
cussed the possibility of creating a sufi-
GENTLY large batch of Liberal peers, to
give the government the majority in the
House IL Lords, necessary to carry its
veto bill He pronounced it to be the
recognized constitutional remedy, and
added. IF an occasion for its exercise
arises, it is not question of the pre-
mier going to the sovereign. and asking
him to create certain number of peers
as a favor. but it is the constitutional
exercise of the power of advice Of the
minister TO the monarch
To Strengthen Imperial Power.
As leader for the government at the
most critical period Of the lords strug-
gle against the Commons, as secretary
for India, at time when that empire is
about to undergo a species Of admins
trative reorganization. with a view to
Strengthening the imperial authority, the
Earl Of Crewe is entering upon the Most
important stage of his brilliant career;
and it may. perhaps, be regarded as a
happy augury, that after twelve years
OF childless marriage, to Lady Peggy
Primrose, daughter of Lord Rosebery. his
wife is looking forward to presenting
him with an heir, and that for the last
few months the workmen have been busy
at Crewe House. his London home. in ar
ranging nurseries for the long wished for
event.
Lady Peggy Primrose is Lord crewe's
second wife. His first wife was Sybil
Graham, daughter of Sir Frederick
Graham, of Netherby, and a sister of
the present Duchess Of Montrose. She
died after seven years Of marriage, fol-
lowed shortly afterward to the grave by
her little boy, and Lord Crewe,s sorrow
for this double bereavement found ex-
preston at the time in a very touching
poem entitled Seven Years" She also
left him with--three daughters, all of
them now married.
The Miners Monopoly.
Like SO many houses of the English |
aristocracy. that Of Lord Crewe had its /
origin in trade. No industry is older
than the manufacture Of cloth, and |
throughout the greater part of the eight |
field was something very much akin to a |
monopoly in the hands of the Mines |
family, hailing originally from Derby |
shire, they had been settled at Wake /
field since 1910, and by degrees became 1
allied through marriage to many Of the |
houses of the aristocracy and gentry of |
Yorkshire. 1t was through marriage that |
they became possessed of the Inflated /
Lord Strafford's seat Of Great Houghton |
from which the new secretary of state
for India's father took his title OF Lord |
Houghton on his elevation to the House /
Of Lords. And later on they acquired, 1
also through marriage. Fryston Hail. |
Where Thomas Carlyle was wont to stay. !
Grove Hall. In Cheshire, together with q |
very large fortune. yielding An income I
Of some 100000 a year. came to Lord
Crewe from his maternal uncle. the third /
Lord Grove Of another creation. whose
barony became extinct at his death
though the Stitle was revived In the form
of an saridom later In favor Of his
nephew.
Lord Grove II distinguished looking.
Tan, night yet with the atr Of IN ath- |
1sta with eyes that suggest strong emo-
don, be conveys the idea Of man Who'll
= e palms TO repress his real feelings,
biz 6ondness Of life and Of fun. In order l
- maintain what he believes 10 b thst