The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-30
CONER WILL NUT
 DISCUSS ORDER Returns l ate At Night from
 Hun[ In Barbour HAD NOT REID HE PAPERS Judge R. w. Wslker Will Probably
Judge R. w. Whiker Will Probably Retire From State counselorshp. $ Attorney Ff1 the Nashville,
 Chattanooga and St. Louis.


 Montgomery. NoNe1nber 29.--(Speeial.) )-- When Governor Gamer reached the city late tonight he was besieged by re- porters. He said he could not discuss the order of Judge Jones because he did not know anythiiA about it. He had been hunting and iad not even read the papers. Until he could see the attorneys for the state he could not say what course the state would pursue.
 He expected to hf in his office tomor- row and intimated that there are bills yet lacking his signature that would be ap- proved.
 A feature of the siuration is the prob- able retirement ft counsel for the state of Judge R. Walker of Hunts vile.
 It is understood fAat he will not be ac- lively engaged any longer because of the appointment of his law firm as attorneys for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, part of thd Louisville and Chat tanooga system. The report to this ef- feet was not discussed by the governor, however.
 Attorneys Hid Conference.
 So far as can bd seen now the attor- neyS for the stateland Governor Gamer Will have a confidence with regard to the litigation in the federal courts on Monday, probably h Montgomery. Gov ernor Conner came If this evening from his plantation, but would have nothing to say With regard to thi course of the state until after he had iklked the matter over with the attorneys.t
 Attorney Generail A. MI Garner and his associates in tie state cases, S. D. Weakley Of Birn hgham and Horace Springfellow of Montgomery, held a meet ing in the office ofIthe attorney general .nis afternoon, being et the same time in long distance communication with IT '. Seiheimer, another Of the state law yers. They all agreed flat they would not be ready by Mopde to answer in the petitions of Il fas1.s ads for exten- sions of iDiunctifr, lEQ, would on that day aEree when ( Ny tSk hila be i,.s s5.s,, ]
 1t was very veil known by the attor- neys for both sides and the court as well that the state could not be ready by that day, but it was necessary to make that the time because of the rule of the court 10 make such papers returnable on re- turn days. It is expected that the time Tor the state to make reply will be set over to the same day of the hearing in me Central Trust company case, which IS against the Central of Georgia and VIII be argued by former United States Senator Spooner
 Accusation Resented.
 Ihe accusation that the farmers arc Tn a sense responsible for the tipbfnese or the money supply Is resented bv state Commissioner of Agriculture I A. Wilkinson, who says that so far as ne can gather those men of the son Who can do so are paying their debts Unfortunately, he says. there are some who cannot, because of Inc shortness of the crops.
 MT. Wilkinson also savc tb,t ;.. 4t. :. main farmers who have cotton and can hoid 1t are doing so. In this case. however, they are putting it in ware houses, attaching the receipts and using them to make safe the men they owe be they wholesale men, merchants or bankers. He believes that as much as one-third of the present years croD is held in this way. He also notes that much of the cotton reported "received' IS yet the property of the raisers, but stored in warehouses.
 MT. Willtin inson makes the interes+ino a, statement that the black belt farmers have not as a rule made enough to pay their debts He attributes this to short crop, inability to get labor and oth CT things that have gone wrong this year. These are the men who are hurt worst and they are having the hardest time. But he would have it known that the farmers are not making hard times, they are holding the cotton as they should.
 Cotton Picker.
 The Worswick- -Haardt Harvester Go. capital $300,000, has been incorporated here, to manufacture the new cotton picker patented by James Worswick. This machine Is operated by suction, the cotton being sucked from the bolls. It is regarded as one of the most prac- tica1 machines in tho list of all those gotten out for this work
 Dr. Thomas M. owen is back from a meeting in Jefferson county of the Ala bama Library association, which was h cid at Bessemer. Ensley and Birming- ham. He regards it as one of the most successful sessions in the history of the body.
 The whole state is seemingly dead set to go hunting. Game Commission CT Wallace says that the number of permits issued from his office Is far ahead of anything he ever anticipated. Jefferson alone secured nearly HOO. Mir. Wallace is just back from hunt on the grounds of the Macon County Hunting club, near Tuskegee, which are the finest in the south. he says. He was accompanied by State Auditor w.