The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-10
WEEKFULL OF
INTEREST 1T
TALLAHASSEE
Federal Court Convenes
With Largest Docket
On Record.
SUCCESSOR TO
JUDGE CARTER
No One Knows Who 1t Will
Be But Governor and
He Won't Tell.
ALL FLORIDA INTERESTED in
POSSIBLE CANDIDACY OF HON.
T. A. JENNINGS FOR GOVERNOR
OPENING WEDGE FOR RENEW
Al OF THE OLD CAPITOL Re-
MOVAL FIGHT.
By Jefferson Bell.


Tallahassee. Feb. 9.-Full of inter
est has been the week at the capital,
vet without any event of unusual I'M
portance. The hearing of the man.
damus proceedings against the Attain
tic Coast Line Railway in the supreme
court engaged that judicial body Mon
day. Acknowledgement Ellis present
ed the arguments for the state, Hon
W. 4. Carter, of Tampa, and Col W
f. KAY. assistant general counsel for
: the Coast Line, made the arguments
nor the motion TO quash the alterna-
writ of mandamus-
70 Federal Court Convenes.
bnday afternoon the United States
hit Court for the First District.
kened. Judge iSpaagne. District
kney ". B. Sheppard, Marshal T.
McGourin, and his Office deputy n.
Eolf. +. w. Marsh, clerk, and his
leputy, Mr.. Wilson, arrived from Pen
4 sacola late in the afternoon. the train
having been delayed several hours on
account of the storm The court was
Immediately organized and began
work Tuesday morning. The docket
is the largest that this court has ever
had in Tallahassee. Most OF the
cases are for timber trespass, cutting
and boxing timber on government
land, with some mOonshine and bhnd
tiger cases. One peonage case is on
the docket, the Old Clyatt case that
was remanded by the United States
supreme court for new trial, and
which will probably be continued, as
/ understand the government has lost
track of its witnesses.
Temperature at Ninety.
| dropped into the court room Iues-
dav afternoon after our ONCE hours.
The janitor was lighting the gas, the
temperature in the room was in the
neighborhood of ninety degrees, and
the atmosphere odOrous of Africa
Judge Swayne looked thoroughly tired
and | wondered how he had endured
eleven days sitting in the famous Pen
sacola peonage case. In the front
row in the jury box, at one end, sat
three negroes. as black as the ace OF
spades. and at the other end one about
the tone of ginger cake. young
man was on trial for making moon
shine whiskey. He was convicted and
sentenced to fifteen months and fine
of six hundred dollars. Poor devil,
/ am sorry for him.. one of the officials
said. though he deserves it, for he
has been running that still fifteen
years"
Ii is a striking fact that most of the
men on trial at this court are young
men. and most of them with families.
judge Carriers Successor.
A notably large number OF distin-
guished men have been callers at the
state house during the week. occasion
ed perhaps by the holding of court and
the matter of the appointment OF
Judge Carriers successor. For two
weeks We had been expecting rival
delegations from West Florida TO
descend upon the governor, but for
some reason they did not come. Judge
Carter. accompanied by Hon. w II.
Milton, came Monday TO personally
tender the governor his resignation.
Calling with them at the statehouSe
were Hon. w A. Blount, Senator
John S Beard, Senator c. l. Wilson,
Colonel Price, Mr.. WatSon's law part
rer, and Mr.. Smithwick, who is Hon.
J. Walter Kehoe's law partner. No
one but the governor seems to know
who will succeed Judge Carter, and
he will not tell.
In this group each man had dis