The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-09
Early Opinion Expected h the
 LynchIng Cases
LABOR LEADERS WILL MEET
Action Will Be Taken at the Norfolk Convention In Reference To Anti
 injunction and Presidential
 Candidates Must Watch.

Washington, November S.-(Special)- Early action will be taken in the supreme court of the United States in the contempt proceedings growing out of the Chatta- nooga lynching cases. Prosecution of al- legged 1ynchers in other states has been delayed in hope that the justices of the highest court In the land would lay down in this case the broad principles to be followed In all such proceedings. At torneys on both sides of the Chattanooga case are agreed that an opinion early this winter Is desirable.
 Solicitor General Hoyt upon his return this week to Washington will draft with Assistant Attorney General Sanford, who has charge of the case. motion for day to be set for argument
 The Powell case of Huntsville will doubtless be governed by the Chattanooga decision. Robert Powell was indicted by the federal grand jury for participation in the lynching of Horace Naples. Pow els attorneys claim that if he committed any offense, it was an offense against the laws of the state alone and not of the United States.
 Anti-Injunction Fight.
 An anti-injunction fight will probably be the feature of next weeks labor conven- ton in Norfolk. Courts which issue and employers who solicit injunctions will be arraigned and resolutions will be adopted urging Congress more vigorously than ever before to transfer from the bench to the jury box the power to pun ish for contempt outside the court room. It is predicted that the anti-injunc- ton fight will fully commit the American Federation of Labor to politics and force it to fight for candidates who can be de- pended on to advance the union cause.
 Federation leaders expect it to ndorse the Gompers political propaganda, and to support even his alignment of it's forces against Secretary of War Taft. Other presidential candidates will be fayed incidentally if antiunion flaws are found in their makeup.
 G. A. R. Men Better.
 The Grand Army of the Republic has again expressed it's disapproval of the re- cent utterances of the Rev. John van Schaick, Jr., who paid tribute to Gen. Robert E. Lee The Rev. MT. Van Schaick has also reiterated his position.
 The resolutions adopted today by Lin- coin Post No B. recite that such senti- ments do not meet with the indorsement of the comrades of the post. in that It does not believe Lee was nt man TO be held up as an example for the youth of the country.
 MT. Van Schaick replied to this latest criticism tonight by saying that Con federate veterans had recently cheered Grant and Roosevelt, and that the Army of the Tennessee meets this week at Vicksburg the guest of the Confederate Army of the Tennessee.
 r ''I regret that any body of northern men should look upon Lee as a trator,' he said "and feel 1t necessary to en- phasize the fact. They are, however. en- titled to their opinions and I do not question their motives'
 Very Bad Design.
 The design for the new ten-dollar gold pieces, aside from the omission of the motto, "In God We Trust" Is generally classed the worst issued from the hints in 5O years One of the main objections is that the wings of the eagle are folded. giving the appearance of a turkey rather than the soaring militant bird of free dom. The coins were issued shortly after the Thanksgiving proclamation of the President, so the resemblance to the festive turkey. which will bring about 90 cents pound Thanksgiving, is not wholly inappropriate for this season of the year.