The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-09-12
TIE SUPREME COURT.
It Is Gradually Catching Up With
Its Business.
The CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS LAW
Has Afforded Much Needed Relief and
1t Looks as Though the Dawn of
the Twentieth Century Would
See Clean Docket.

WAsIISGToN, Sept i0-The promised
reduction in the size of the docket OF
the supreme court Of the United States
during passage Of the act creating cir
cult courts of appeals, seems to be
realized. At the present rate Of
progress the court will have caught
mp with its work in the year 1900
and will be ready to enter upon the
twentieth century with clean books.
Since the court adjourned on May Is
last, 90 new cases have been docketed,
ls less than the number docketed dur
ing recess last year There are to-day
III fewer eases on the docket than
there were a year ago
Frank Carver and Dennis Davis, con-
victed Of murder and sentenced to be
hanged by Judge Parker in the west.
ern district Of Arkansas, given another
trial by the supreme court, and again
under sentence Of death, appear as
appellants asking for third trial.
Gov. and ex.Vice.President Levi Z.
Morton appeals from a decision by
the court Of private land claims. The
United States brought suit against
three claimants to a tract of land in
New Mexico to con firm its own title to
the land, but the court decided in favor
of julian Sandoval and against the
United States and the other claimants.
The United States and Gov. Morton
have appealed separately The third
claimant has not yet put in an appear
ance.
A customs ease coming from Louisi-
ana presents a question for answer by
the court upon which Judges Pardoe,
Mccormick and Emory A. Speer are
divided. That is: docs the presence
OF few bags Of foreign manufacture
in an importation of American jute
bags, originally sent out of the coun
try, make the whole lot subject tc
duty, the importers having used all
due diligence to keep foreign bags ouI
OF the invoicc?"
/ ulN tNO tdcto "htiNAh Wv
Interstate commerce commission ha'
been worstcd in attempts to enforce
the law and where the commission ap
peals to the supreme court OF thu
United States for relief. 1t ordered
the Detroit, Grand Haven Il Milwaukee,
Railway Co. to desist from favorinl
Grand Rapids shippers, thereby dis
eliminating against those at Ionia
Mich, in the matter Of drayage ant
the Ala bama Midland Railroad Co. I,
make certain rates to Troy, Ala.
no greater than those to Montgomery
| Ala. The court of appeals in th
sixth and fifth circuits, respectively
directed the lower courts, which ha
con nfrmed the commission's orders, I
dismiss the cases.
Two questions of admiralty an
maritime jurisdiction have been r'
ferred to the supreme court for answe
by the judges of the supreme couI
for the southern district of New 1orl
They are in connection with the c.
tradition of Henry Hewecker fo
alleged murder on board an America
ship in Havana. They are: p): Wher
assault Is committed on tll
bigh sea aud the victim die
four days later on land, does the Grim
come within the admiralty and mar
time jurisdiction? (D Where erin
other than murder is committed on til
high seas, and the guilty party is q
rested and indicted at the first port
the United States he enters, the da'
being more than three years after I'll
act was committed, is the prosecutio
barred by the statute of limitationT