The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-30
COUNT HALDANE
REACHES AMERICA
Noted English Jurist Here
for Short Visit
TALKS TO REPORTERS
Graciously Consents to Be interviewed
and Discusses Several Subjects of
International Interest-Is
Guest at Dinner
TALKS TO REPORTERS

New York August 29.-Count Haldane
the first lord high chancellor of Great
Eritein to leave his country since Cardi-
nal Wolsey went to France 800 years ago
arrived today on the steamship Lusitania
for flying visit of five days in this
country and Canada
The lord high chancellor, whose posi-.
| ton in England corresponds to that OF
chief justice of the supreme court of the
United States, is here as a guest of the
American Bar association before whicf
he will deliver an address at it's annua
meeting in Montreal next Monday. To.
night he was entertained at a dinner
| given in behalf of the association by. c
A. Severance OF st. Paul. His itinerar,
includes visits 10 West Point and Albany
Greets Newspaper Men
Previously warned that he might ex.
| pect to be interviewed by American news.
paper men on his arrival in New YORK.
the chancellor smilingly greeted a delega-
/ tion of them who boarded the Lusitanis
at quarantine and submitted to another
Interview when he reached the hotel
where he is making his headquarters In
this CITY,
Lord Haldene freely discussed many
questions of the day, declared that he
was in favor of woman suffrage
prophesied that millennium of peace
was far off, said the relations between
Germany and England were never more
cordial praised the intellectual growtl
OF the United States and predicted thai
nome rule for Ireland would soon be ar
accomplished fact With a merry twinkle
in his blue eyes. the lord high chancellor
Joked with his interviewers between seri.
GUS remarks and conceded that the Amer
lean custom of interviewing distinguished
VISITORS was delightfully."- progressive"
Must Be Evolution
1t would be very sanguine person.
he said, when asked his opinion of the in.
fluence of the peace palace at The Hague
who can see the dawn of internationa
peace. 1t is useless to look ahead towaro
the permanent cessation of war in thu
| near future We can only do our bes
| and trust to the progress of opinion. The
coming of the millennium of peace mus
| be an evolution like everything else, bu
some day we must come to the realiza.
ton of the fact that we can settle oul
differences in better way than by quar-
relling with each other"
Lord Haldane chuckled when the oues
ton of woman suffrage was brought up
Yes, ! am suffragist,' he said ''bu
| do not approve of the militant suf
fragettes. You are fortunate to have n,
militant suffragettes in this country ant
I sincerely hope the militant idea will
not gain foothod here. The method,
OF the English suffragettes have delayed
equal suffrage for years. Al present ther,
is no chance of woman suffrage becoin
ing a government measure, as the cabi
| net is hopelessly divided on the subjec
and so are both parties If a governmen
were to be elected ON that issue then i
would be hopelessly divided on ever,
| other ISSUE
| The fact that the lord high chancellor
when he was secretary of state for war
| visited the German Emperor at tn,
height of the i'll feeling between Ger
| many and England over the armament
question was made the basis for a ques
tion as to his opinion of the present re
| lations between Germany and England
Relations Cordial
Our relations are constantly CROWNS
| better. he said, especially since the
| adjustment of the Balkan situation. II
| fact, there has been much better feeling
| displayed between the two great group,
of European powers as the result of ths
| Balkan situation in which they hay,
worked together. The results augur E
much better feeling in the future
Speaking of home rule for Ireland, h,
| said: Home rule was never nearer adop
| ton than it is today and believe it will
| soon be an accomplished fact. or course
the religious question in Ulster is diff
aar1f hatT A.tA
| the clock from advancing
! The chancellor refused to discuss th,
Mexican situation except to say that ht
| was confident that the United State,
would deal with the question in the broat
| way in which ii had treated other grea
| problems
| He said that he had made clos,
study of the constitution of the United
| States, the decisions of Chief Justic,
Marshall and of American court proce
dure, but had been greatly enlightened OF
these subjects by Supreme Court Justic,
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, a fellow passen
| ger during his voyage.
| II think English law he said, .'ha.
| fewer technicalites than the American
law. You have more opportunities TO
| appeal than we do in England W.
are very sparing in this particular Thi
| is especially true of criminal procedure
! II have greatly admired" he added
| 'the intellectual vigor of the American
| people and the vigor of your literature
Your growth in these respects is withou
| parallel
| Lord Haldane was accompanied by hi
| sister. Miss Elizabeth Haldane. and ST
| Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, clerk of tn
/ crown.
| The party was met at the pier by
| reception committee of the American Ba
lassociation. which included Frances Rawl
| of Philadelphia, chairman; Jacob NJ. Dick
| inson, former Secretary of War; Judg
! Alton b. Parker. Francis Lynde Stet
son and c. A. Severance. They escorte
| the chancellor on a sightseeing tour O