The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-21
NEW JUDGE IS NOT PROBABLE Opposition to Plan Has
 Arisen. ALABAMIANS ARE DIVIDED Attorney General Moody Also
 Against the Measure.
AABAMIANs ARE DIVIDED
Application Has Been Made to the President for Pardon for John. ". Pace, Convicted on a Charge
 of Peonage.

Washington, Jan. 20--(Special- Complications are arising which makes 1t extremely doubtful that bill can be passed to provide an additional United States Judge for Alabama.
 Judge Thomas c. Jones who naturally has looked into the situation since his arrival is somewhat of the opinion that nothing can be accomplished this ses- sion. In the first place Attorney Gen. eral Moody is reported to be opposed to the creating of new districts and new judges. He has said to several members of congress that the number of bills offered so far for the creation of new judges, and the division of dis tricts, are too numerous to meet the approval of his department. It is said that he has let it be known that he wishes the bill for Alabama held up by the house Judiciary committee.
 A rumor was also abroad to-day that a bill would soon he introduced by an Alabama republican to divide the state into two districts. the northern and southern, with only two judges for the entire state. reserving the right to Judge Jones to liev at Montgomery.
 Delegation ia Divided.
 There is said to be division among the Alabama delegation on the subject of creating an additional judge for the state. One of the members says that efforts are being made 10 patch up the difference, but the success of those ef- forts are yet to be determined. Another thing in connection with the drawbacks is said to be that if a new judge is pro- vided for there is some danger that the appointment might go to Oscar Hund- ley, of Huntsville. At any rate reports are reaching Washington from Alabama that lawyers of prominence by the score would rather conditions remain as they are than have HundIey stand oEa fAra EtN1 nfV9fr ant reports probably are congregations. Certain it Is that protests of this char acter are being received here.
 It Is generally conceded that no state in the union needs an additional judge more than Alabma. The business for disposed of expeditiously and the judges have more than they can do to keep up with the eases. The bankruptcy cases in the state are not only heavy under the local conditions that are so well known to lawyers, but the personal in- jury causes in the mineral sections of Alabama are becoming larger and larger as the great resources Of Alaba- ma are developed ana expanded.
 Judge Jones expects to remain here several days longer He is in good shape physically, his recent indisposi- tion not having amounted to anything The Judge expects to have an audience with Attorney General Moody, and, be- fore returning to Alabama, hopes to be able to go to West Point to see his son.
 Want Pardon for Pace.
 Efforts are being made to secure a pardon for John W. Pace of Dadeville, Ala, who was sentenced to the peni- tentiary for four years for peonage. It is represented that Pace is in deplor- able condition, and those who have r1n sv. that imprisonment would soon cause his death. Judge Jones is in favor of the pardon and has been to the White House about the matter. This was one of the first cases tried, and Pace, vir- tually pleaded guilty.
 Postmaster Vaughan, at HiIlsboro, Ala, having died, Representative Rich ardson has recommended that Mrs. Gully Porter be appointed to succeed him. She is highly recommended by most of the business men and leading citizens of the town and for about nine months before the death of the post master practically had charge of the office Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock informed Judge Richardson that the case would be submitted to the Republican referees for Alabama, but said that the opposition of the referees did not always control
 The House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee has reported unanimously Judge Richardson's Mus sells Shoals electric power bill, and he has been authorized by the committee to call 1t up in the House at the most favorable opportunity to put it upon its passage. A bill of this same pur- pose introduced by Judge Richardson was vetoed by President Roosevelt at the close of the Fifty-seventh Congress. He introduced another in the Fifty eighth Congress which was defeated All the objections have been removed, the measure now being endorsed by the War Department officials
 Judge Richardson says this is a vast enterprise and opens up immense cleo tric powers undeveloped and unusued in the great Mussels Shoals.