The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-28

new responsibilities or a yeritable clearing house of the world
 Born in 1864 in Watertown, N Yo of an old established family of Dutch descent-the name tradition says. was originally spelled Lanslngh-Mr. Lansing first took his A. B. at Ann herst in 1886. At college he was cap tain of his class football team. but never made the varsity Returning home he studied law and was admit ted to the bar in 1889 and joined the firm Of Lansing & Lansing.
 That year he married. his bride being Eleanor. the daughter of Gen. eral Foster. It has been said that he married into a profession of diplom- acy" Certainly he chose a bride well equipped as the wife of a diplomat
 Reared in the atmosphere Of state craft and diplomacy-much of her childhood as well as her mature life being spent in the world capitals graceful, accomplished, Mrs. Lans. ing is a fitting helpmate for diplo- matlst and minister of foreign af- fairs.
 Watertown of course has been the real family home since their mar. riage, but Mr. and Mrs Lansing have journeyed far abroad on the various diplomatic missions which have been entrusted to him.
 In 1892, three years after his mar riage, he was employed by the gov ernment as associate counsel for the United States in the Boring Sea ar- bitration work which lasted three years and which found him employ. ed side by side with his distinguished father-in-law
 Later. in 1896, he was counsel for the United States before the point Bering Sea claims commission, which sat at Victoria. B C.. to determine the amounts which should be paid to Canadian pelagic sealers by the United States for unlawful seizure in Boring sea under the award of the Paris tribunal
 In the meantime his private prac- tice in international law grew. At var ious times he has been counsel for the Mexican and Chinese legations in Washington.
 In 1908 he was solicitor for the United States before the Alaskan boundary tribunal between Alaska and Canada Later he was counsel for the United States at The Hague before the tribunal of arbitration which adjusted the North Atlantic coast fisheries dispute.
 It is said he has been so employed more often than any other lawyer.
 In 1872 the United States and Great Britain jointly former a tri bunal to adjust long pending claims of British subjects against the Unit ed States and American citizens against Great Britain. to which tri bunal claims totaling some S6,OO0,OOO were presented
 Mr. Lansing was made agent of the United States in charge of the pre- sentation of the American claims to the tribunal and of the defense of the British claims.
 Mr. Lansing was taken from that work last year to become counselor of the Department of State.
 Up to that time the matter of Mir Lansing's politics never had been a subject of discussion. By reason oi his long service under Republican Secretaries of State it had been as sumed without inquiry that he was a Republican But it turned out that he was a Democrat. And it might be added while carefully avoiding all activity in politics, Mir. Lansing's in terest in politics is not entirely academic. On some little matters of New York politics, notably the selec ton of postmaster at Watertown he has kept a watchful eye.