The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-22
sUPnrmr ooUnr DEoIsroSs.
Tsrns Asti.Trnst Law Csssa pec,aed Tttheut
Rnnainr On the validity OF The law.

Psss,ne su the validity or the Law.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2l.-Tho Supreme Court
of the United States will not sit on Washing
toms Birthday. This announcement was made
to the members Of tho bar b. Chief Justice
Fuller to-day, who said that at the conclusion
Of this present sitting the court would adjourn
over tomorrow.
An unusual demand for admission TO the
chamber Of the court existed to-day, and It was
crowded TO its utmost capacity. Many OF tnoso
in attendance were delegates TO the congress OF
others were friends Of Attorney-General GrigEs,
who was presented 10 the court a. Justice Mo
Kenna's successor.
Tho court disposed Of the cases, recently
argued. growing out Of the Texas AnttTrustlaw
without expressing any opinion of the validity
or constitutionality OF the laws aforesaid. Under
o otSe GpS we're indicted. and in the lover court
convicted. This action was reversed on appeal
out further action. The defendants then APP
piled f. the Circuit Court IT, for ht the r NSrth,
took the ground that tho case presented
sSs. t ans H shsi fPssani law ~ .a ,s' Observation-Disclosures tGS%d
and void, and discharged tho Petiticners from
s sps sIseIh from Sr that mStt ordsr to So ths Supreme REM Court COURT.
Justice Peckham said that tho case did not pre-
sent any such eXfgoncy AZ warranted 1ntorfer-
once with tho processes Of the State court, and
on that ground alone the judgment Of tho Cir
cult Court was reversed and the petitioners re-
Tho case OF Elizabeth Wetsel ct al. vs.. the
Minnesota Railway Transfer Company. affect.
ing the title to 40 ncres of lana lying within
tho corporate limits Of st. Paul, Mimi, was de-
cided by the Supreme Court to-day In favor Of
tho Transfer Company. Tho land was located
on q warrant issued to a soldier in the Mexican
war, and some of tho heirs transferred without
the widows consent. Tho court below found
that the claimants under tho widows assertion
OF title could not recover for laches In asserting
her claim. and this judgment was affirmed. -,
What are known as the might inspectors"
cases were disposed Of to-day In the Supreme
Court, tho contention Of the claimants being
upset By the decision announced BY Justice
vessels ct night, receiving their appointments
as Surveyors watchmon.' instead of might
Inspectors" in order to ovade the operations
Of the civil service law. and two years after
discharge Q test case was brought in the
Court Of Claims to recover for extra SER
vices, and the amount Of difference between
their wages and that of night inspectors-
The Court of Claims gave judgment for the sum
claimed The Supreme Court to-day reversed
that Judgment, holding that the acceptance
by the claimants without protest during their
whole period of service of the money paid In ac-
c~ordance with the terms of employment was In
full.
Chief Justice Fuller announced opinions in
two cases-in the first that the State of South
Carolina IL not divided into two judicial dis
tricts. but into two divisions of ono district. and
that the phrase manufactures Of wool =" In the
tariff act Of 1894 included worsted goods.