The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-11
New Yorker Has Little Faith In
 Republican Measures
LAN0IS NOT DISCOURAGED
Defeated Indiana Congressman Will Run a Farm and Write Editorials. Congressman Kitchin Will Stay
 Part of Present Session.

Washington, December 1o.-(Special) Judge Alton B. Parker of New York is here to attend arguments in the local courts for an appeal in the mat ter of the Buck Stove and Range com pany against the American Federation of Labor, for which organization the eminent New Yorker has been engaged as chief counsel.
 Judge Parker does not believe that the republican Congress will make a bona fde revision of the tariff in the sense of reducing duties to a point where such a measure would benefit the public. irrespective of the loss it might inhict on the manufacturer. He expressed the Idea that the people knew more about tariff revision than ever and that the time was coming when tariff for revenue only would be demanded.
 Good Word For Maddox.
 The Vice President elect spoke a good word to the President today in behalf of Representative Maddox of Rome Ga. who desires to be placed on the Chickamauga Battlefield Park commission, and who will probably be appointed. q told the President that l served on the same committees with Maddox and that there is no better man in the country" said Mir. Sherman, who declared that he had not talked to the President on any other mat [ ter
 LandIs In Good Spirits.
 Representative Charles B. Landis of Indiana who was defeated for re-elec- ton to the Sixty first Congress, isn't d bit discouraged by his failure to win out in the last campaign.
 Pm just going back to the farm, !" he said when asked what he will do after March 4. "I'll just run the farm and write editorials for my country newspaper"
 MT. Landis said he hadn't heard any thing about cabinet position for him self.
 kitchn's Resignation.
 Governor -elect Kitchin of North Carolina has sent his resignation as a member of Congress to Governor Glenn of that state. MT. Iitchin's resigna- ton takes effect on January 1S, which is one day before he begins his term as governor.
 Representative Kitchin was first elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and has been one of the popular members of the minority. Having a number of matters to adjust before relinquishlng the term of office he has arranged to leave the House just as near his in auguratio date as possible.
 Prominent Tennessean.
 Prominent in the Waterways convention is M T.. Bryan, an ardent Tennessean, who comes from Nashville. He is the only man so far as it is known who in- duced the late Edwin Booth to express in writing, over his own signature, whether. in his opinion, Hamlet was crazy He wrote letter on the subject and the great actor replied in these words: Ham, let was crazy only in his craft Mir. Bryan sent the letter to the Players club of New York. It was framed and hangs on the club room walls now. It Is the only tangible evidence today of what Booth thought of Hamlet.
 New Naval Bill.
 The House naval affairs committee has gone to work with a rush on the new naval bill The routine phases of the measure have already been completed and the work of the committee will now large ly consist In reaching a decision upon the number of fighting crafts of different type for which provision will be made. Representative Hobson of Alabama said today that the prospects are more favor able than they have ever been for a great CT Eavy. With the President, Captain Holson is advocating four battleships.
 Seeking a Pardon.
 Representative Richardson of Alabama introduced to the President today G. o. Chenault of Moulton, Ga, an attorney, wlio is here seeking a pardon for Dr. ]. T. Pitt who was postmaster at Flor ence Ala, and has served IS months of an 1S-months term in the Atlanta prison for tampering with the mails. It is de- clared that Pitt, by reason of morphine and other dope, was mentally irrespon- sib,c when he committed the offense and that he ought to be pardoned. The Pres ident referred his callers to the depart ment of justice, where the application will be passed upon and forwarded to the President