The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-24
SUCCESSOR TO
 JUDGE HUNDLEY Names Suggested to the President. wv. E. SMITH IS ENDORSED
 Amos Goodhue is Also Spoken Delegations Are in Washington to Help | Taft Choose . Man for the Ala bama Bench-Lumber
BY ALFRED J. sTOFER

l. 1 A delegation of Alabama lawyers and others from Birmingham, Ala, and vi- cinity, with Julius Davidson at It's | head, is here in the interest of W. Ii. l Smith, of Birmingham, for judge In the place of oscar R. Hundley. | It is understood that they have very strong endorsements for MT. Smith. not only from prominent men of both parties in the judicial district, but from influential New York Republicans who are intimately acquainted with Attor- | ney General Wickersharn.
 These visitors are reported to be very much in earnest, and have high hopes of being able to convince the appointing power that MT. Smith Is | the man for Judge.
 Amos Goodhue the Birmingham law | yer, is here. and friends of his who have reached the conclusion that Judge | HundDley Is to be retired have sort of idea that the lightning might possi- bly strike MT. Goodhue, wlren the new Judge is selected. At any rate they declare they would not be surprised. in | view of the fact that so many are be- ing mentioned, If he should be agreed upon. However, this Is their opinion only.
 Others who are discussing this now I celebrated case are of the opinion that I the President Is still pondering, and the man who finally Is picked out for Judge. they are inclined to believe IS mixed up with the half dozen others whose names have been suggested to the appointing power.
 Republicans Alarmed.
 There Is a commotion among South ern Republicans lowering around I Washington, to find out just what the policy of President Taft will be in re- gard to the public pap" question In | dropped at the White House within week. which cause quite number to have a suspicion that President Taft, Is going to not only relegate to the rear most of the Republican bosses in the South. but that he and Postmaster General Hitchcock are confabbing all most daily with a view of giving Dem- ocratic Senators and Representatives a show when 1t comes to making selee- tions.
 At least the talk is their opinions will be asked. and the referee system | established by Roosevelt will be prac- tically abolished. This does not mean that the President Is going to throw the Republicans of the South overheard | entirely, but there are evidences right now. that the general policy will prob- ably be changed, and the old pap hunting brigade" that has been stand ing up at the pie counter" for so many years will have to step back. The sub ject Is certainly causing much uneasi- ness among the "old crowd" and most of these fellows hardly know where they are at"
 To Dust the Negroes.
 It Is said that President Taft and Postmaster General Hitchcock will in the near future, be able to let the pub lie know just what the policy towards the South is to be. One thing seems to be agreed upon already and that Is few, if any negroes, are to be given positions of importance in the South Whatever patronage Is to be bestowed upon the race will be in the Washing ton departments, and in countries where negroes are received as minis- ters and consuls with an occasional job of importance up North and out West in States where the people claim they do not seriously object to a man on account of his color.
 Lumbermen Pester Payne.
 Chairman Payne, of the Ways and Means Committee, in a discussion in the House today with several Republi- cans who wanted to know If he and the other leaders were going to permit 6 separate vote on the lumber schedule In the tariff bill, said they could have 1t if they wanted but he solemnly warned them that if they were not careful lumber would be placed on the free list. He also said most positively that the present duty on lumber could not stand.
 This was a "sockdolager" for Repre- sentative Langley, of Kentucky, and others who had been pestering Leader Payne. and telling him that things wore going to smash if the lumber du- ties were cut in half as the pending bill proposes.
 Payne accused the whole crowd of living in the back woods with visions not large enough to see what the coun- try needed for the general good, and advised them to get up on a high mountain and take look.
 This is fast getting to be a redhot light between the publishers of the az ricultural journals whose editors insist the farmers throughout the land want and must have free lumber. and the lumber dealers who are flooding Wash ington with literature on the much debated subject. and demanding pro- tection.
 On this lumber matter Senator John ston Is receiving a telegram about ey- cry half hour in addition to the letters and printed matter he gets on the sub tect. The same Is doubtless true of most of the Senators in whose States the industry Is a large one.
 Senator and Mrs. Johnston will leave Friday afternoon for St. Louis to be present at Christ Church Cathedral Sunday when their son, Edward b. Johnston. will be ordained a priest In thez Episcopal Church. They will re- .tu&}f- immediately after the ceremony.
 pr. Blake, of Sheffield, who was con vict physician of Alabama while Sena- tor Johnston was Governor, was among the latter's callers today So was Judge E.. B. Allmon of Tuscumbia, on his way home from New York.