Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-13
READY FOR BUSINESS.
The United States Supreme Court
Visits the President.
INTERESTING CASES TO BE HEARD.
The ConstitutiOnality of the Mckinley Bill
to be Tested.
sCHWAB AND FIELDEN WANT HEARINGS

WASHINGTON, Oct, 1.-THE Supreme
Court of the United States met for the Oc-
tober term to-day. Three of the justices
were absent from the court. Chief Justice
Fuller is still in Chicago where his daugh-
ter is very i'll and Justices Bradley and
Gray have both been i'll, but are now recov-
ering The space reserved for the bar was
well filled with prominent lawyers. Attor-
ney General Miller, Solicitor General Taft
and ex-Attorney General Garland were also
present.
The only business transacted was the adj
mission of applicants to practice before the
court and an announcement by Justice
Field that the most important Of the cases
advanced for argument next Monday were
postponed until the second Monday in No
vember. This step is taken for the reason
that it is desired that they should be heard
by full bench, and the probability is that
all the justices will not be present Monday
next. The list includes the Sayward case,
which involves the question of the juris-
diction of theUnited States over the seal
fisheries in Behring Sea, the antilottery
cases, the elevator case and the cases in
volving the question of constitutionality of
the Mckinley tariff act. The court ad-
iourned q few minutes after II O'Clock and
went in body to pay its respects to the
President
A VISIT TO THE PRESIDENT,
In accordance with time honored GUS
tom, the Judges and officers of the United
States Supreme Court signalized the begin
ming of a new term of court by an official
xiui& fo 4ha nf ha MIA fod
They arrived at the White House about
1890 o'clock, and were at once ushered into
the blue parlor, where the President awaited
them. He was attended by Attorney Gen
eral Miller and SolicisGr General Taft.
There being no need of a formal introduc-
tion the ceremonies wers confined to gen.
eral handshaking all around and a few
moments conversation between the Presi-
dent and each of the Justicef.
Moses Salomon, of Chicago who is asso-
ciated with Hon. Benjamin Butler. will to-
morrow file motion in the Supreme Court
to advance for hearing the case of Samuel
FieIden versus the State of Illinois, and
Schwab versus the warden of the penitenti-
ars of the State of Illinois. Both Fielden
and Schwab are serving sentences in the
Joliet penitentiary for connection with the
Anarchist conspiracy cases in Chicago some
years ago.
CLAIMS MADE IN NOTED CASES
The case of Fielden comes before the
court on writ of error by the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Illinois The
question to be presented in the case will be
that the Supreme Court of Illinois violated
the Constitutional right of Fielden when it
refused to amend the record showing that
he was present in the court room when, as
a matter of fact, he was not present; also.
that the court had no power to sentence
him in his absence. Consequently counsel
will insist that the judgment and sentence
was void.
The case of Schwab comes before the
court on an appeal from the action of Judge
Gresham, of the Circuit Court of Illinois, in
declining to issue a writ of habeas corpus
asked for by counsel, on the ground that
Schwab is confined in the penitentiary on a
communication issued by the Governor of the
State, which Communication counsel will in
sist, is no authority for the confinement of
any one in the penitentiary. The conten-
tion will also be raised that the commuta-
tion did not specify any penitentiary in
Illinois in which the prisoner should be con-,
fined.