The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
Testimony for the Day Is Fa-
 VorabIe to the Judge
BRIEFS WILL BE FILED
Two Weeks Will Be Taken to Finlsn Up the Case and the Anti-Hundley
 Men Want to Delay It
 Till After March 4.
By PATTERSON sTEALEY.

Washington, January 3O-(Special)- After hearing score of witnesses the Senate subcommittee of the Judiciary adjourned today with the Hundley case practically completed. The attorneys against Judge Hundley were given five days to file a brief. Judge Hundleys friends are allowed five days in which to reply by brief and the anti-Hundley com mittee will receive three more days for response. The subcommittee will then re- port upon the case to the full commit tee. As this will take at least two weeks from now the anh-Hundley men are claiming that if Senator Bacon of Geor- gia holds out on the floor of the Senate the nomination cannot be confirmed by i March f.
 As was the case Thursday, all the wit nesses were examined or cross-examined by either John B. Knox or Walker Percy. The hearing closed today with the hear ing of the Hundley witnesses. N. L. Steele, the referee in bankruptcy, sad' that Judge Hundley was held in the high ability questioned until here recently Mr. Percy asked Mir. Steele if he had ever known of a case of judge in Alabama where so many lawyers had come against him. Steele replied that he had not. He thought that most of the opposition to Hundley was personal
 Percy replied, You think you are above personal interest?" Steele named John r. Tillman and J. c. King as this class and added that there were others
 Held In High Esteem.
 T. S. Long of Jasper was of the opin- ion that Hundley was held in very high regard by the people in that district. He was asked by Percy for the names of a few of them, and much to the amusement of the committee he started off with the Joneses and Smiths in Walker county.
 The next witness was Hinds Peevey of Birmingham He declared that Hundley had made good as judge and had the esteem of the people of Madison. His ex- petition of business at Birmingham, he stated, had largely improved conditions. He said he had always considered Hund- ley a pretty good lawyer and as a judge he had acquitted himself favorably. Un- der eross-examination by MT. Percy, Mir Peevey was asked to name few of the leaders of the Madison county bar. He named Judge Walker, Shelby Peasants and Lawrence Cooper. MT. Percy called attention to the fact tha< all of these men were opposed to Hundley's confirma- ton.
 D. A. Grayson of Huntsville thought that Hundleys character was all right in the estimation of most people until he changed his politics. He said Hundley had been popular with the people in his section of the state. He had been elect ed to several offices and had never been defated. He referred to the fact that the late Milton Humes. the leader of the Huntsville bar, had indorsed Hundley. He did not wish to impugn the motives of the opposition, but he knew there was great deal of talk to the effect that Shelby Peasants might get the appoint ment of judge in the event Hundley was not confirmed. There was also a sus- picion that Judge Walker wanted the place.
 Dryers Statement.
 E. H. Dryer of Birmingham had pre- pared statement as to the feeling of the bar throughout the district on the case of Judge Hundley. MT. Percy took exception to many of the instances cited and declared that in several instances it was incorrect. The statement is as fol- lows:
 Lawyers of the Northern District of Alabama.
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