The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-16
The SUPREME COURT
Formally Opens the Judicial Term
OF 13eo-o7,
AND THEN CALLS UPON THE PRESIDENT.
There Are Fifty-Four Cases That Have
Bsen Advanced for Hearing. and
the Number May BE In
creased Upon Motions.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The supreme
court of the United States met at noon
and opened the term of 1867 All the
justices were present. Justice Fields
health is such as to preclude his ioin-
ing his associates on the bench regu-
larly. The several justices during the
past summer visited their respective
circuits and sat with the circuit judges
In the disposition of cases, except
Mr.. Justice Harlan, who re-
mained in Washington through
out the entire vacation, save for
short trips to nearby resorts. No
business transacted save to receive
motions for admissions to the bar.
When these were disposed of the court
adjourned, and accompanied by the
clerk and marshal, called at the White
House and paid their respects to Presi-
dent Cleveland. The ceremony, which
has been a part of the proceedings of
the opening day of the term from time
immemorial, was omitted in the years
1894 and 1895 because of the absence of
the president from the city.
On the succeeding days of the week
the calendar will be cleared, but it is
not expected that any argument will
be heard until next week, when the
cases that have been advanced for
hearing will come up. There are 81 of
these already assigned for place, and
the list will doubtless be increased up
on motions to be made in the coming
week. Among these are the following
of Importance:
The United States VS.. the Bell Tele-
phone Co., suit to annul the Berliner
patent; ten cases from Ohio and four
from Indiana, involving express and
telegraph company tax laws, and four
from South Carolina, growing out of
the state dispensary law; the United
States VS.. the Oregon & California
Railroad Co, and the United States VS..
the Union Pacific, the Winona & St.
Peter and the Sioux City & st. Paul
Railroad companies, all involving land
grants, which the government is seek
ing to recover, and the usual number
of murder cases.
The court has under advisement,
having carried them over from last
term, % cases in which decisions may
be looked for early in the term. Prom
inent among these are the cases for
determining the constitutionality of
the Wright irrigation law of Califor-
MIA, which has been sustained by the
state supreme court and declared in
valid by the United States circuit court
for the southern district of Cali
fornia. The validity of millions
of dollars of bonds issued by irrigation
district commissioners, depend upon
the decision in this case. Other cases
are the Nebraska maximum freight
rate controversy between the railroad
commissioners of that state and three
of the railroad commissioners; the La
clede Gas-Light Co. litigation from st.
Louis and the Santa Fe On. NJ land
case, involving the title to the ground
ON which it stands
The distinguished jurists were ac-
companied to the executive mansion
by Attorney-GeneraI Harmon and So
licitor-General Conrad. Their greet
ing by the president was cordial, but
beyond interchanges of vacation
"reminiscences, nothing of public inter
est occurred at the reception.