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Show REVISION AN IMMENSE' TASK Tariff Campaign Veterans Anticipate the Discussion That Will Arise 4 The forces for and against the present pres-ent tariff schedules somewhat changed in personnel and alignment, will bo marshaled; tho old dispute between the mine workers' union and the anthracite an-thracite operators . will be renewed, and Albert T. Patrick, who Is serving a life sentence for tho murder of William Wil-liam Marsh Rice in 1900. will begin under court authorization the completion comple-tion of a brief in behalf of his freedom. When congress adjourned last week optimism regarding tarirr revision was quite generally expressed In tho prediction pre-diction that the special tariff session called for March 15 would bo concluded conclud-ed by June 1. Nevertheless, veterans of tariff campaigns realize that there is much to be said on the- subject of hides, wool, beet sugar, lumber and steel. It was in April, seven years ago, when the six months strike in the 'anthracite coal region began. The last three years' agreement will expire ex-pire upon April, and upon the early renewal of the working agreement rests the matter of harmony or strife in the anthracite field. President Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of America, and the miners' committee commit-tee on Thursday in Philadelphia wllj confer with the presidents of the in-thracite in-thracite railroads and coal companies. Despite the fact that Patrick has made more than a score of futile efforts ef-forts to secure his freedom and the story has been told again and again, there cannot fall to be an element of human interest in the long fight this attorney is making for his freedom. Couvicted of murder, sentenced to be executed, but his sentence commuted to life Imprisonment by the late Governor Gov-ernor Hlgglns, Patrick mnlntaining that convicted Imprisonment Is worse than death and that the executive had no legal light to make more severe tho punishment Imposed by the court. For four hours Patrick pleaded his case before the appellate division in Brooklyn last Friday, nddlng to Ms original contention the charge that he had been "railroaded" to prison through conspiracy. When the state interjected the suggestion that If he objected to the commutation the only I alternative was electrocution, the prisoner paraphrased the words of Patrick Henry, exclaiming with cmo- j Hon: "I want liberty or death." j The court granted Patrick two weeks to make additions to his brief and granted an order instructing the warden at Sing Sing prison to afford the prisoner every rensonable facility j for the conduct of his work. Patrick'3 cell bus been transformed into a law-y law-y r's office. The retrial of the Standard Oil com- j pany of Indiana for alleged robatln will le continued in Chicago and on ' Monday the government expects to complete its proof relative to tho publication pub-lication of the disputed tariff number 24, which shower! an 18-cent rate for oil between Whltting. Ind., and East St Ixniis. III. j |