The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-12
HUNDL BY MAY
 ISE OFFICE Sen ors Present Record of Judge. CRAVE CHARGES. ARE MADE Asa E. Stratton May Be Called to
 Washington. It Is Said Montgomery Man Would Be . Willing witness--Commit-
 tee Impressed With the
 Statements.
BY ALFRED ,. sToFER.

Washington, Jan. 1I--(Special.)- Many Republican Senators, and espec- ially those on the Judiciary Committed, are said to think it queer that Judge Oscar R. Hundley has never answered certain grave charges that were in- cluded in the report drawn in the last Congress by Senator Kittredge and the late Senator Pettus. and which are now in the record of the case hanging fire before the Senate Judiciary Commit tee.
 Some of the leading points in this report have previously been referred to in these dispatches, but there are others in that report which. beyond any doubt, have great weight. and unless satisfactorily explained will go far to- ward causing Judge Hundley's rejec- ton for Federal Judge.
 The following is an actual extract from the report of Senators Kittridge and Pettus and which is causing so many of the Senators to consider:
 We beg leave to report, after hav- ing presented MT. Hundley's record as nals, to submit to the committee facts and charges of @ personal character filed for several weeks of the case, giving MT. Hundley full oDortunity to deny the same.
 "An editorial on December 8, print ed in The Daily Tribune, of Huntsville, where Mir. Hundley resides, a Republi- can paper, and for many years the or- gan of the Republican Party of Ala bama, headed A Plain Sell Out. charg- ing Hundiey with conduct wholly un- becoming a gentleman, or a good citi- zon. Your committee, while not dis posed to attach any considerable im- portance to a newspaper article. feels constrained to notice 1t when the same
 
 itoriaI is reiterated. and denounced as corruption by the leading Republicans claiming to be cognfzant of the facts.
 "We attach as an exhibit, the editor- faI referred to in The Tribune, and a letter of Hon. Charles P Lane. editoz of The Tribune. also the letter of H. V. Cashin. of Decatur, for two terms Re- ceiver of Public Moneys at Huntsville, and the letter of Hon. Asa E. Stratton. addressed to Hon. D. ". Pettus of date of January 8, 1907.
 "Cashin, in his letter referring to Mfr, Hundley's conduct uses this lan- guage: Which he acquired by the most corrupt methods (That refers to Hundley's nomination for Congress Joe Whee1er.)
 .'These charges are reiterated in other letters attached to said exhibit. It appears to your committee that such charges coming from a newspaper in a mans home town, as well as from others knowing Mir. Hundley, and be- ing of such a grave character, tnvolv- ing the integrity, character and truth of a man, are entitled to some notice, answer or explanation, and especially if he is asking to be appointed to high and responsible Federal office"
 It Is strongly intimated that MT. Stratton will be asked to appear before the committee, as the Senators looking into the case consider him man of high character for the reason, they say, that he was the Republican candidate for Governor of Alabama against Gov ernor Conner.
 It is said MT. Straeton has expressed a desire 10 come to Washington when ever he Is wanted.