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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920.

IS LADY ASTOR M.P. ?

THE LEGALITY OF HER ELECTION DISCUSSED.

The Saturday Review questions the LONDON, March 10th.legality of Lady Astor's election as a The Timer New York correspondont member of Parliament on the grounds says it is stated that the Amorienn Nay of her being (1)a, naturalised British is constructing two giant seaplanes by which a sight will be attempted from San subject, and (2) a peeress. Aques Francisce to Hongkong via Honolulu, tion of greatconstitutional importance

is thus raised. ANNERLAN Wake Island, Guam and Manila.

It is reported that a new giant Vickers aeroplane will issue a challenge for the trans-Pacific flight.

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日七十月正申庚大盛年九

RECENT INVESTMENTS OF CAPITAL IN INDUSTRY..

The last six months of 1919 wit- nessed an unprecedented volume of investments in newly-registered com- panies. The total subscribed in that period is placed by Messrs. Jordan and Sons, Limited, Chancery Lane, W.C.2, in their summary of statis- tica, at nearly £260,000,000, distri buted among about six thousand In 1916 afar-question was new companies. A special feature raised in the High Court in connec of postwar finance is, of course, tion with Sir Edgar Speyer's member the enormous increase in the ship of the Privy Council, The capital of individual companies. Evening Standard has obtained the In 1913, the averige was about opinion of Mr. Gaud Mullins, who £21,000, day it is £45,000, or more was one of the counsel for Sir George than double. These figures give one Makgill in the case brought against the proportion merely, but the trend Sir Edgar Spejer.

of business is more clearly indicated

WASHINGTON, March 10th Giving evidenes before the Naval Com mittee of the House of Representatives Mr. Daniels said that extensive improve

The legality of Lady Astor's elec-by the fact that in 1919 there were meats in naval facilities along the Pacife Coast were meat necessary for the Paciiction depends on two points. Is a only 21 companies with a capital of Fleet which was now much bigger than naturalised British subject capable over £1,000,000, whereas in the last the entire American Fleet which sailed of becoming a member of Parliament? six months of 1919, no less than 48 round the world before the war. The tennage of the Pacific Flee was over half Secondly, is a peezess eligible for concerns were registered with an aggregate capital of £50,000,000, a million, including big capital ships now

the individual firms ranging up

"The being constructed which are said to be

six millions. necessary to protect the coast of Alasaka

to and the Philippines.

election?

On the first point it is clear that by British Nationalty Act of 1914 the wife of a British subject shall Mr. Daniels recommended the develop-be deemed to be a British subject." ment of Pearl harbour as a supply base Those words re-enacted the similar and of Guan as a fuelling and repair provision in the Naturalisation Act station and aanval dockyard. San Francisco was capable of repairing capital ships. He also recommended a largo increase in the Naval Reserve.

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ADMIRAL SIMS RETALIATES.

of 1870.

UNLESS THEY ARE REPEALED. Both Lord and Lady Astor were born outside the King's dominions.

cause

for this is to be found not only in the fact that trading in special lines on a larger scale is being adopted as a set-off to increased cost of produc- tion, but also to the greatly depre- ciated value of the £1. sterling. It is interesting to note that shipping companies are responsible for about 8.3 per cent. of the capital raised in

of foreign parents. Hence, unless it the past six months. This is the

is absolutely certain that the follow-natural outcome of the shortage and the boom While President Wilson regards the ring words in the Act of Settlement of shipping, servations to Article Ten, Hitherto pre-have been repealed, they are fatal which that trade is experiencing. posed as unacceptable, apparently it is both to Lord Astor's membership of There are now prospects that this hoped that be will accept the modif the House of Lords and to Lady wit pass before long, and shipping reservation mentioned on March 9th TE effect of this reservation is that the United Astor's election to the House will then cease to stand at its present

Commons The Acc States assumes no obligation to employ of

of extremely attractive level. Mines are forom under the Peace Treaty for any Settlement provided that "No person responsible for not far short of 10 purpose unless Congress so privides by a born out of the kingdoms of England, per cent of the capital subscribed, joint resolution,

Scotland, or Ireland, or the domi and oil comes in for about 7.4 per nions thereunto belonging (although Cant. Both these are, cr should be, be be naturalised or made a denizen sound sources of wealth. Textiles except such as are born of English rank also very high (nearly 10 per parents) shall be capable to be of cent.). due, doubtless, to the at- the Privy Council or a member of tractively high prices of finished either House of Parliament."

goods now prevailing. On the other In 1870 Parliament enacted that hand, the fact that engineering busi- naturalised subjects shall in the resses have obtained about 5 per United Kingdom be entitled to all cent of the subscribed capital, while political and other rights, powers, half as much again has been sub and privileges of a natural born scribed to arms engaged in the motor Briti-h subject. Did these words industry, is not at allæeassuring. The abolish the incapacity imposed by latter is partly, at last, a luxury the Act of Settlement?

trade, and it would be more satis The British Nationality Act of factory to see a greater-proportion 1914 provided that this section in the of the money going to the engineer. Act of Settlement shall have effecting trade, in order to build up a 29 if the words "naturalised or were better position for the whole world. omitted therefrom."

25 regards necessaries of life.

WASHINGTON, March 10th. Speaking before the Senate Committee Admiral Sing denied the charge of throw- ing mud, at the Navy and resented the charge of divided allegiance, because Lo barpened to have been born in Canada,

Ee said that if Americana did ret want a man with British or French sympathies to sit on the councils of the Allice they should have sent a pro-German with a trunkfal of bombs.

UNITED SATEŠ, AMBASSADOR IN

LONDON,

WASHINGTON, March 10th. The Parkersburg (West Virginia) De mocratic State Committee has cabled to

I speak on this subject with con-it is noticeable that the iron and Mr. Davis, the American Ambassador in London, to saosrtain his attitude with siderable diffidence because the brass trades absorbed about 4 regard to becoming a Democratic candi-Court of Appeal did not accept our per cent only of the capital sub- date for the Presidency.

"ASTOR FARM.”

New York, March 10th. Part of the Astor Estate in New York, known as the Astor Farm, was sold at an auction for 86,000,000.

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argument that the Act of 1870 did scribed, while cinematograph shows not overrule the incapacity imposed took just about the same. Here, in the Act of Settlement, and that, again, we have a very unsatisfactory even if it did, the incapacity was feature. The chemical industry, reimposed by the 1914 Act, which which should be encouraged, if we said that it "shall have effect." are to secure a proper share of the The Speyer case did not go to the world's trade, absorbed less than 2 House of Lords, and only that tribunal per cent of the capital subscribed. can now alter the ruling that these Altogether the money invested, while words of the Act of Settlement are it may meet with pretty good re- repealed and that therefore natura turns, has not been, in many fust A Royal Warrant announces that, salised subjects can be members of the ances, put into industries which will from April 1st, 1919, native officers and Privy Council and Parliament.

help to re-establish our trade and en- bren of the Hongkong and Singapore

The second objection is stronger. sure a sound commercial position for Garrison Artillery who have been granted Au Act of 1918 says that "a woman us among other nations.—Engineer. service pensions in war-time or after shall not be disqualified by sex oring. February 2nd be paid the same rates as marriage for being elected to the kaaay be awarded in similar circumstances. to

Indian Army officers and soldiers of the Commons House of Parliament." same rank, but the pension under the pay warrant of December, 1914, may be drawn if more favourable than the new rate.

LONDON, March 10th.

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But is net nobility another disquali- DIAMONDS IN A DRAIN. fication.

VALUABLE FIND BY TWO WORKHEN SIFTING RUBBISH

Lady Astor is a peeress by marri; age only. It may be said, therefore, that Lady Astor has only a courtesy title. But in days gone by courtesy, titles have been held to be sufficient to promote their holders to member. Portions of a platinum, gold and ship of the House of Lords. A text diamond bracelet were found by two book on Peerage Law says that" the workmen in a heap of sand and rub busband of a peeress in her own bish which they had sifted from a right seems to have been considered drain at Paddington. entitled to be summoned to Parlia Not realising the value of their ment in respect of his wife's dignity." discovery, they joked about find

Tittle So late as 1907 Lord Davey doubted ing diamonds. and 80

think whether this was not still so. But did they

of whether this is so or not, it is certain matter that bits of the bracelet. that a courtesy title is a good deal were given as playthings to the baby more than a handle to one's name. of a friend. At length the latter ascer tained their real worth, and tried to NOBLE" BY MARRIAGE.

pawn some of the diamonds. As al "Where a peer marries a com- result the three men charged at Mar- moner, the therefore becomes a borough-street Police Court with peeress and therefore noble." Thus stealing the bracelet by finding it.. says my text-book, and Sir Erskine

All three men were given goodtha-

the

The American Bankers Association has arranged to circularize its member ship of 22,000 banks in the United States requesting their assistance in selling, the Food Drafts originated by · Herbert Hoover as the safest, most economical, and only really practical method of helping the people of Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, "and Czecho-Slovakia. The American Relief Administration is now stocking its warehouses in Warsaw, Hamburg, Vienna, Budapest, and Prague with flour, bacon, beans, canned milk, corned beef, lard, and cotton seed oil. Persons here desiring to assist persons in the countries named may purchase. Food Drafts in denominations of $10 and $50 and mail them. Upon receipt of this draft the beneficiary can go to the nearest central warehouse of the American Relief Association and obj thin the amount and kind of food de signated on the draft. There are two? $10 and two $50 Food Draks,'design=

But exclusion from the Lords does that this question has not been raised ed to meet Christian requirements and Jewish requirements. The plan has not make Lady Astor eligible for the before. People do not realise that, Commons. Let us take every im, despite the advent of Dernocracy, we

May sars that preresses are: racters by the police and the magis entitled to the same privilege as trate held that the charge could not peers, whether they be peeresses, by be sustained. They were therefore birth, by creation, or by marriage," discharged.

Lady Astor is excluded from the House of Lords because, first, Lord Astor is alive, and, secondly, because

it is ordered by the Lords that but constitutional principles are privilege of Parliament shall not be no respecters of persons. allowed to noblewomen."

It certainly does seem remarkable

been approved by the State Depart ment, Federal Reserve Board, United;inery case. Suppose Lady Astor still have technically class Govern

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committed treason or felony. Her ment. The House of Commons still trial would have to be in the House represents the third estate," and of Lords, according to the principle Lords, spiritual and temporal, have laid doen in Magna Charts. This their own House.

privilege of trial by one's peers can- There has been a certain amount not be waived, as some peers have in of reshuffling, especially as regards past times distovered to their cost. Irish peers, and the Parliament Act It would certainly shock all constitu- promised to amend the House of tións principles if a member of the Lords. But the principle still lives in House of Commons had to adjourn our constitution, that the nobility to the House of Lords for trial have a House of their own end that, Lady Astor is not likely to commit therefore, nobility has no place in the I treason or felony, I fully agres House of Commons.

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