The morning times., 1896-09-11
-FOUR YEARS. WORK AHEAD
Supreme Court viii Catch Up
in the Year 1900.
RECESS CASES PILING u
Establishment of the New Circuit
Courts of Appeal Are Reducing the
Supreme Tribunals DOcket-InpOr-
tant Cases Filed for Hearing at
the Next Sitting.

The promised reduction in the size OF
the docket of the Supreme Court Of the
United States, by the passage of the act
creating circuit courts OF appeal, seems
to he realized. At the present rate of
progress, the court will have caught up 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 %
last, sixty sic new cases have been
docketed, eighteen less than the number
docketed during recess last year. There
are today l24 fewer cases on the docket
than there were q year ago.
Frank Carver and Dennis Davis, con-
victed of murder and sentenced to be hung
by Judge Parker, in the Western district OF
Ark ansas, given another trial by the
Supreme Court, and again under sentence
OF death ', appear as appellants asking
for a third trial
Governor and ex-yice President Levi p.
Morton appeals from a decision by the
court OF private land claims. The United
States brought suit against three claim
ants 10 a tract OF land in New Mexico to
confirm its own title to the land, but the
court decided in favor of Julian Sandoval
and against the United States and the
other TWO claimants. The United States
and Mr.. Morton have appealed, sepa rately;
the third claimant has not yet put in an APP
ance.
A customs case coming from Louisiana
presents question for answer by the court
upon which Judge bardee Mccormick and
Emory A. Speer are divided. That is:
Does the presence of few bags of for
eigD manufacture, in an importation OF
American jute bags, originally sent out
OF the country, make the whole lot subject
to duty, the importers having used all
due diligence to keep foreign bags out
the iDvoice?'
There are two cases wherein the Inter
state Commerce Commission has been worst
ed III attempts to enforce the law, and
where the commission appeals to the Su.
preme Court of the United states for relief.
1t ordered the Detroit, Grand Haven and
Milwaukee Railroad Company to desist
from favoring Grand Rapids shippers and
thereby discriminating against those at
Iopia, Mich. in the matter of drayage,
and the Alabama Inland Railroad Company
TO make certain rates to Troy, Ala, no
greater than those to Montgomery, Ala.
The courts of appeals in the sixth and fifth
circuits, respectively. directed the lower
courts. which had confirmed the commits
sion's orders, to dismiss the cases.
Two questions OF admiralty and maritime
Jurisdiction have been certified to the
Supreme Court for answer, by the judges in
the Southern district of New York. They
arose in the matter OF the prosecution
of Henry Howeckcr for alleged murder on
board an American ship in Havana. They
are: First, where an assault is committed
on the high seas, and the victim dies fou-
days later, on land, does the crime come
within the admiralty and maritime Juris-
diction? Second, where a crime other
than murder is committed on the high
sea and the guilty person is arrested and
indicted at the first port of the United
States he enters the date being more than
three years after the act was committed,
is the prosecution barred by the statute OF
limitations"