The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-14

ton may be made on shipments Of lumber.
 At the conclusion of the hearing the committee agreed to grant until July 15 for the filing of briefs. AL ready about fifty briefs have been re- ceived, including several from lumber interests. As these are received they will be digested and the testimony will be briefed for the use of the de- murrage committed.
 Yellow Pine ReparatiOn Cases. It now seems probable that many, perhaps all, of the claimants in the famous two-cent refund cases in the Central Yellow. Pine Association ter ritory, which have not already com promised their claims with the rail- roads, will fight the matter out to Q finish, beginning at the hearing scheduleW-f for June 21, before the In terstate Commerce Commission, at by the recent Birmingham agreement. Small Hope of Pardon. W s. Harlan, of Lockhart, Ala. manager of the Jack son Lumber Com- pany, win have to begin his eighteen months sentence in the Atlalhta pent- | tentiary for conviction on the charge | of peonage, unless something unex- pectedly happens to prevent. This In | spite of the strong efforts of his  ston, of Alabama, and Talliaferro, of Florida, saw President Taft about the matter the other day. They urged 1 that Harlan was not guilty and had not been legally convicted, as the trial court had no Jurisdiction over the case, and that if guilty and prop erly convicted, his sentence was un- usually heavy and unjust.
 The President promised to give the case, careful attention, but the chances are that even if he should decide to pardon Harlan or commute his pun ishment to a $5,000 fine, that action will not have been taken before the | unfortunate man goes to prison. In fact, the Department of Justice has already sent the mandate of the Su- | pfeme Court to the Federal Court in Florida. The department still has an | application for Harlan's pardon before l 1t, but the pardon attorney says Il l will only be taken up in regular or l der, which may mean several months | delay.
 The Lumber Tariff.
 The features of the tariff debate ir 1 connection with lumber this week
 have been the attacks and explana. I tions that have been made against anc | by Democratic Senators in connection
 with the votes of seventeen of then l against the McCumber free lumber I amendment. William Jennings Bry \ ans criticism of the Southern Demo
 cratic lumber protectlonists was no II relished by the latter, but they los
 little time in defending themselve
 against the charge of voting in viola
 ton of the free lumber plank of tn
 Denver platform.
 The finance committee still has tn
 lumber schedule under consideration
 and will probably not report amend
 ments to the same until the consider
 ation of the rest of the bill has bee \ practically completed.
 There are rumors that hot struS
 gle will occur when the bill reache conference. The Republican insur
 gents in the House are said to b
 recognizing after their defeat on tn ~rules adoption. They insist that the
 will force a second. and even thir
 and a. fourth. conference If necessar
 to make the House provision 'sta
 put" in the bill If the Senate in creases the lumber rate. as is expect ed. that schedule will be one of tn
 chief objects of insurgent attack, bu they are likely to find little suppor
 among the Democratic members.