Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-10-13
SUPREME COURT
HAS BIG DOCKET
High Tribunal Enters Upon Most
important Term
JUSTICE HABLAN PRESIDES
Tobacco Trust, Standard Oil, Corpor
alton Tax, Virginia Debt and 9th
err Cases of Great Significance
to Be Heard.

upon one of the busiest and most i'm
portant terms in recent years. Ow-
ing to the illness and unusual number
of deaths among the members of that
high tribunal during the last two
years, the docket is piled high and
cases, including such important ones
as the tobacco trust, Standard Oil,
and corporation tax suits.
AS no successors have been ap
pointed to the late Chief Justice Full
Ter or Associate Justice Moody, whose
resignation takes effect November
20, the bench will be short two of its
full quota for the present. Associ.
late Justice John M. Harlan, the SEN
ior member of the court, has the dis
tinction of presiding over the tribun-
al until new chief justice has been
confirmed by the senate.
1t is not considered probable that
the more important cases will come
before the tribunal before January,
as President Taft is exceedingly anx-
ious to have full bench to hear these
cases.
1t is probable that the president
may name the new justices before
congress convenes, but they would
not be able to serve until their ap.
pointments had been confirmed by
the senate. In view of the fact that
congress will adjourn very shortly
after converting December 5, for the
Christmas holidays, it naturally fol.
lows that the court will not have a
full bench until after the first of the
year.
When the court adjourned last May
there were $50 cases on the docket
which had not been disposed of. Since
then LOG cases have been filed with
the court, thereby making the total
number of cases on the docket today
692. The last October term of the
court was ushered in with 5S7 cases
for the supreme body to act on. The
total this Year is the largest in the
history of the court. In this connec-
ton the dockets show that there has
been steady increase each year for
Lne ldSL ndlI century.
Virginia Debt Case Is Up.
Although the tobacco trust, Stand
ard Oil, railroad and the corporation
tax cases are regarded as the most
important ones now before the SUI
other cases of considerable national
significance. One of the latter is the
original act of the state of Virginia
against it's next-door neighbor, West
Virginia in which several million dol
lars are involved as a result of the
division of Virginia in it's original
state. The suit consists of an at
tempt to compel West Virginia to
shoulder part of the debt that existed
in Virginia at the time of the division.
There are two peonage cases ap-
pealed by the state of Florida; the ap-
peal Of a number of railroads in the
western territory in the suit brought
by them against the railroad commits
sion of Missouri; three criminal cases
brought by the United States on &C.
count of alleged violations of the pure
foods and drug act; the appeal of the
United States from the United States
circuit court for eastern Missouri in
its suit against the Western Termin-
al association af st. Louis, which is
known as the Eads bridge monopoly
case; and the libel suit of the United
States against the Press Publishing
company of New York which grew out
of articles printed in the New York
World about Theodore Roosevelt, who
was then president; William Nelson
Cromwell and others in connection
with the sale of the Panama canal.
The docket contains also a CORES
ponding case against the Indianap
oils News.
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