The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-10
MORGANATIC WIFE is
COURT STORM CENTRE

note beyond the confession by tho
chiei magistrate OF France that he is
wholly in favor of woman suffrage.
Unless am much mistaken, Poincare
is the first ruler of any nation to con-
TESS himself sufrragist. In declaring
movement he drops the remark that
the denial to women OF the right to
vote is justified only by constdera-
tons of opportunism, or by the resist
ance of custom"
The President also pronounces him
self in the book as strongly advocat-
The only flaw In the volume is what
appears to be his misapprehension OF
The habsas eGrpus act OF the Great
translates 1t as thou shalt have thy
his attention to the fact that ''habeas
corpus" are the opening words of ~
writ directing, tho person who has any
viduai's body for Judgment in court.
1t is odd that a lawyer who has been
the leader and recognized head of the
trate of the French republic, should
not have known this.
A question has been raised in Eng
land as to whether the relatively large
sum of money which 1t cost to place the
Great. Seal In commission during the
IIaldane to the United states and Can
ada. has been paid by Viscount Hal
dane himself. or by the American Bar
Association. The amount involved is
about $4,000. and it was this question
,of expense that deferred number of
Lord Haldano's.. predecessors on the
Continent i'm search Of health, relaNa-
ton and change Of scene.
1t is understood that the American
Bar Association paid the expenses Of
the voyage to and from America Of
Lord Haldane; of his sister. Miss Hal
dane. and Of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie;
the clerk of the crown also for all
their entertainment on this side of the
SHar No sYsspt tSnt IL to % this his
proper to permit a foreign body. such
rs the American Bar Association. to be
OF placing the Great Seal of the king
dom In commission during the absence
In America of the Lord High Chan
sized the fact. both while here and by
came to the United states and Canada
message from the King, and with the
exposition of the views of the English
of course. only natural that the expense
in question should be borne either by
the he, E I; ~, goySrnmemt Or by the
spite his fame for thrift.
Andrew Carnegie's particular friend
the latter being the ancient Scotch
town where both men were born-is
creating CONSERVATION among all the
owners of castles. shooting lodges and
country seats on the Deeside by his
active movement in favor of the con-
struction of Il line of railroad from the
railway station at Ballatcr to Braemar,
some twenty miles distant. The pro-
ject was already mooted years ago,
and indeed. a mile and a half of the
line was actually constructed by the
great North of Scotland Railway. But
Queen Victoria. who WAS accustomed to
spend nearly half the year at Balmoral.
dreaded
by the tourist element, which would be
brought i'm. shoals to the Deeside by
the various land owners Of the dis
trict. insisted that the line would di-
minish in value, If not absolutely ruin,
from which they derive either great
enjoyment or large revenues. Their
influence influence and. above all, that of the
queen, proved strong enough to cause
the. abandonment of the scheme.
Now it has been revived by Lord
that II is certain to overwhelm all
opposition, the more so as King George,
VINO limits his stay ut Balmoral to n
few weeks only, is by no means so keen
Tor privacy. or entertains such hor-
ror OF encountering strangers. as his
grandmother. Queen Victoria The rail-
Braemar to Grantown, on the High
land Hallway
o,n Lord shaw is Lord Of :, Ap one in Or
remainder of his days. after having
been leader of the Scotch bar, solicit
tor general and lord advocate for Scot
land. His peerage, which he received
four years ago, is merely life dignity.
IKE that of the late Lord Russell OF
Halloween, Lord Chief Justice OF Eng
land. and will become extinct on his
demise, instead OF passing to his thirty
year-old son, who will be known
throughout his life, as he is to-day as
the Hon. Alexander Shaw
Copyright, 1913, by the Brentwood
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