Evening star., 1924-11-23
FEW LAWYERS WIN
PARLIAMENT SEAT
Only IS Elected to British
Legislature, Which Has
Membership of 615.

correspondence OF The Star and New York
LONDON. November 15-Americans
accustomed to the great preponder-
ance or lawyers over all other call
tngs represented in Congress and In
many Of the Legislatures Will per-
maps, be surprised to learn that
when the Mother of Parliaments re-
convenes at Westminster December .
the House of Commons Will number
7S disciples OF Blackstone. In tho
last Parliament there were 80 law
yers. The total membership of Par
! lament Is 6I5
That is very modest proportion
OF lawyers compared with the mum
Der who will set in the next Houss
of Representatives in Wa WashinCron and
In the Senate, where the legal f-s-
ternity always mas a majority oyrr
the other professions The solution
was, of course, suggested by a for
mer resident OF Stratford- on-Avou.
who in the play of King Henry VI
made Jack Cade say, The first thing
we do let's kill all the lawyers"
Pussyfoots will cheer up because
there are TO be no distillers in tho
House. There will, however, be nine
brewers and no fewer than 10 direc-
tors of breweries, so to the question
the answer is decidedly in the affirm
atiye. For the rest English poll
ticians seem to be recruited Yer.
largely from top-notch business me.
engaged in all branches OF com
merce, industry and finance.
One Pawnbroker Elected.
among the faithful Commons. Thi-
is Mr.. Womersley, u Tory, and tn.
senior partner IN d large firm "f
pawnbTokers, who has been returned
from Grimsby. The way members ar.
turned out Will come under the crit
cal scrutiny of K. a. Taylor, a So
cialist from the old cathedral city CI
Lincoln, who is working tailor.
East Bradford has sent the villaG.
blacksmith, T. Fenby, TO represent i
while the Socialist member for Ea-
monton is T. a. Broad, a scientiG.
instrument maker. The interests T..
Conservative Banffshire will l..
guarded by William Templeton, a E.
Edinburgh wood turner, while an
other Tory member is T. Oakley, clec-
trician the Wrekin. Fifteen mem
bers are or have been newspaper me-,
Among the debutantes who ran for
Parliament but who will be kept -
home for the present are "Comrade
Oliver Baldwin. son of the Tor
leader, who met defeat on the Labof
ticket, as did young Malcolm Ma
Donald, son OF the first LaborSociai-
ist prime minister. L. j. Strachey.
son of the Tory editor of the SpeCta-
tor, was another Labor candidate
whom one suspects has interests IN
common with his kinsman who wrot-
Queen Victoria and Eminent Viz
torians."
HendersOns sons Last.
Arthur Henderson, the veteran La
Dor leader and late home secretary.
came back safely, but his two sons
who sat with him in the last Parlia-
ment were both casualties in the late
rising. There were no end of other
interesting youngsters who ran but
were tTipped up by the waystde.
AS an instance of the Tory land
slide il may be added that no fewer
than Il lords have been returned to
the House of Commons. Their titles
for the most part are courtesy titles.
they being the sons of dukes, earls
and marquesses. But they're honest
to-goodness lords just the same
Here they are: Lords Sandon, Bal
nell, Cavendish, Bentinck, Erskine.
Wtnterton. Fernoy, Elveden, Apsley.
Chichton- Stuart. Curzon. Dalkeith,
Harrington. Stanley, Titchfeld. Woi-
mer, Eustace. Percy and Hunting
field. A certain newspaper MAJ
from Texas thinks the title of tn
last named lord seems almost liL"
rubbing it in.
Two Brothers Elected.
Although the Henderson boys failed
10 clear the hurdles, there will be two
brothers in the Commons just th-
same Two sons of the Lord LieuteE-
ant of Cornwall have gained seats
for the Conservatives, Comdr. Charles
Williams being returned for The
Torquay division OF Devoushirc
and Alfred Williams being returned
for the I4aurcts tston division of Corn
wall. The latter is the first Tory
ever returned for the constitute
There Is a precedent In the stimuli
taneous service of brothers iii Parlia
meut that is not likely to be broker.
In the middle of the last century four
sons of Daniel O'Conneil. the irish
liberator, were sitting members i;
the same time. and three OF them sat
simultaneously with their father.