The morning times., 1895-10-13
WITH one SEAT vACART
Supreme Court to Convene in
Fall Term on Monday.
IMPORTANT CASES PENDING
Among Them Are the Appeals on the
Income Tax Decision, the Telephone
Suits and Many From the District
of fCoIumbia-LoDg List Set for Re-
argument.

The Supreme Court will convene for the
term of 1895 at noon Monday next. All
the justices viii have arrived in the city
by tonight, Mr.. Justice Gray being the
last one to reach here.
He had an unpleasant experience while
In Canada, having been bitten by a vicious
dog. The injury confined him 10 the
house for several weeks. No business Will
be transacted Monday beyond the ad-
mission of new members to the bar. AT
the close of that ceremony, the memners
of the court will visit the White House
to pay their respects to President Cleve-
land.
1t may be that Chief Justice Fuller viii
announce the death of Justice Jackson,
as he did in the case of Justice Blatchford,
but the usual course has been for the
announcement to be made ON the occasion
of the presentation by the Attorney Gen
eral of resolutions adopted by the bar.
A meeting of the bar has been called for
IL o'clock Monday morning.
VERY LONG DOCKET.
On Tuesday the Chief Justice viii begin
the call of the docket 1t will comprise
T75 cases, of which 135 were filed dur
ing the recess, as against SIS at the be-
ginning of the term of 1894. When the
court adjourned in May last it had under
consideration th1rty-seven cases, in most
of which the decisions may be expected
early in the term. Among these are the fol-
lowing:
Singer Company VS.. June Manufacturing
Company, involving the right to control
trade name, The Consolidated Electric
Company VS.. the McKeesport, Pa, Electric
Lighting Company, in which the electric
patent is at stake: the United States VS..
the Union Pacific Railroad Company and
Western Union Telegraph Company, to de-
termine the validity of the contract be-
tween these corporations, intended TO pre-
vent competition in the telegraph business
along the line of the railroad.
The triangular contest between the set
tiers on land grant in Iowa, backed by
the United States, and the Sioux City and
st. Paul, and Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroad Companies, which claim the
grant, is also pending.
CASES FROM THE DISTRICT.
The five cases appealed from the District
of Columbia courts, in which the plaintiffs
seek TO secure a division of the famous
Mckee Choctaw fee, amounting to $780,
600. Mckee is willing to give the claim
ants 100000, but they want more.
Myer VS.. Richards, involving the liza
bility of the State of Louisiana for the
bonds once paid and then reissued by Burke.
the fugitive State treasurer: The Thorne
Wire Hedge Company VS.. The Washburn &
Moen Company, two cases involving the
barbed wire fence patent; The Pacific Ex-
press Company's tax cases from Arkansas:
the criminal case of Sam Downing, alias
Sam Hickory, under sentence of death for
murder In the Indian Territory, and the ia
nous case of John G. Moore VS.. Internal
Revenue Commissioner Miller, for an in
Junction to restrain the collection OF the
income tax.
All the decisions have been against grant
ing such in1unctions, but ex-senator Ed
munds, in his argument Ter Moore, appar