Evening star., 1923-07-27
Cadogan Heir to Inherit Land on
Which Chelsea Suburb Is Built

tailed property in return for the set.
tlement of his obligations and for a
fairly generous but by no means large
allowance from the trustees OF the
property.
Indeed, when the late earl died. It
was found that his successor was not
included among the executors OF the
will, who consisted of his daughter,
Lady Sophie Scott, and her brothers.
Edward Cadogan, member of parlia-
ment for Reading, and Alexander Ca
dogan Of the foreign office, to whom.
also, all the unentailed property was
bequeathed.
The late Lord and Lady Cadogan
were such warm and intimate per-
sonal friends of King Edward Queen
Alexandra and Of their children that
there was a good deal of prejudice
at court against the present peer by
reason of the trouble which he had
given TO his parents, and. at the time
gave expression TO his sentiments IN
rather an unusual way. AS rule,
when a knight of any of the great
orders of British chivalry dies, the
insignia is returned to the sovereign
by the successor of the defunct. But
when the time came to return to the
king the Order of the Garter of the
old earl, who had been member OF
the cabinet, as lord of privy seal. ana
viceroy of Ireland, the sovereign in
the insignia should be returned to
him by the dead mans widow, his
second and relatively youthful wife.
instead of by the present peer, ana
the fact that the order had thus peen
returned to the king formed the sub
ject of an official communication in
the Court Gazette.
The great war, however served TO
restore the earl, to some extent, 10
the good will of the reigning house
81 y1no
Lord Cadogan, who had been vet
eran of the Boer campaign OF twenty
five years ago, received commander
ship of the military division of the
Order of the British Empire in recog-
milton of his services from 1914 to
the arnfistice.
During every session of Congress
many hundreds, nay thousands OF
bills-that is to say. projects Of law
and petitions are presented TO one
or the other of the houses of the
national legislature at Washington.
Their names and titles are read out,
on presentation, by their sponsors,
and that is the last heard of the
greater portion of them. 1t is the
same with the British parliament at
Westminster.
AS soon as the member has risen
in his place in the commons to pre-
sent to "Mr. Speaker. a humble Pc
tition Of the $4,000 citizens of the
borough Of say, "Muckton -on-
the-Sea, praying for the legislative
abolition of organ grinders, or So
called German bands" it Is at once
deposited in huge, grim-looking
bag with an enormous. cavernous
n n
of a hideously deformed and over
grown sea slug, which hangs behind
te speakers chair to engulf these
humble petitions"
The question has arisen as to what
becomes of them. Does any one ever
become acquainted with their con-
tents? They are never read out, and
so it Is that unless some individual
| member has the curiosity to fish a
petition out of the nav of this sea
slug, they are left there until, after
the accumulation of a sufficient num-
ber of them, they are buried by night
in some remote spot within the pre-
cincts of the palace of Westminster,
tity of chloride of lime to assure the
speedy destruction of the projected
laws that have remained still-born.
1t would be interesting to ascer-
tain the fate assigned TO similar ac-
cumulations of petitions and projects
Of law that are supposed to be sub
mitted for careful consideration" by
Congress. I understand that there.
too, they are not destroyed by fire
but are buried in huge quantities
| by night, somewhere in the outskirts
/ of Washington. Their fate is shroud-
ed In kindly mystery. Very few leg
| islators display any curiosity on the
subject. They are happy in the be-
lief that the measures they have
sponsored at the request of their
constituents have been consigned to
such complete obiiteration as to pre-
vent their ever being resuscitated to
haunt their uneasy and conscience-,
stricken slumbers. -