Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-09

master of the court. last spring re ported that the amount varied from about s3.e00.000 to about 5000. 600 according to the basis that might be accepted for a settlement. Some of the most prominent lawyers In the country will appear before the court to argue on exception to the report. which will be preparatory to final judgment in the case.
 Immediately following the Virginia case the court will hear the famous peonage cases from Florida. Only the favorable action of the Supreme Court 1t is said can now save several men from going to the federal penitentiary for alleged violations of the laws against compulsory service. W. s. Harlan. general manager of the Jack Son Lumber Company. with big mills near Lockhart. Ala. has been sen tenced to serve eighteen months at hard labor in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta Go. and to pay fine of $5.00o; Robert Gallagher. logging sup erintendent, to fifteen months and a fine of s1.000; c. c. Hilton and s. E. Huggins. employees to thirteen months and fine of S1,000 all for having conspired to commit the of fense known as peonage The accused are seeking to be releahed on writs of habeas corpus the claim being that the sentence to hard labor was file gal, that the trial court had no jur isdiction and that the grand jury was not constituted according to law.
 Scarcely of less interest in the labor world will be the cases involving the constiutionality of the Employers Lia bility law of 1908. This law was passed by Congress to take the place of the act nullified by the Supreme Court because it applied 10 intrastate commerce as we'll as to interstate. The present law has been attacked along the same lines.
 Of even greater interest is the case involving the contempt proceed ings against the officials of the Amer ican Federation of Labor: Samuel Gompers. president of the federation lis under sentence to serve twelve months in jail: John Mitchell, former ly president of the United Mine work CTS nine months; and Frank Morri- son. secretary of the federation. six months. all for alleged contempt of the Supreme court of the District of Columbia in that they disregarded the injunction to cease interfering with the business of the Bucks stove and Range Company. of St. Louis, whicr had brought suit against them to pre vent them from boycotting it. All the points in the controversy are tc be laid before the court for final dc cision.
 I The Missouri two cent passenger rate law and the maximum freight law of that state have been set for argument after the contempt cases The constitutionality of these laws is attacked. Owing to the veto by Gov ernor Hughes of the New York tive cent fare bill, his attitude as a mem ber of the court toward the Missouri cases will be watched with interest
 The court twas to have given a l econd hearing at the beginning of the term Co the Baltimore and Ohio South western Railroad cases. involving the question as to what should be the unit for the assessment of penalties for iyiclations of the twentyeight hour law, governing the shipment Of live stock. Last year the court stood four in favor of holding the trainload to be ! the unit and four in favor of making the unit the separate shipments. In view of the tie vote. it is now believed the case will await the filling of the vacancies.
 A case involving th= coasSitutional. ity of the California law of 1906 pro Ividing for the quieting of title to real estate in case of the loss or destruc ton of public records, as by earth quake, will be heard according to pres ent arrangements early i'll the term | A long list of prosecutions under federal laws were als1 pat norwar1 a: the head of ,Es oalenj7r for the looming term. Among these are the ,appea of the government rom the ac ton of the New York federal courts jz. setting aside the indictment against F. Augustus Heinze on charges of intent to defraud the Mercantile Na itionaI Bank of New York City. O! which he was President; the appeal of the government from similar tresi ment of the indictment against George Kissel, a New York Broker. and Thom as B. Larned Of Philadelphia. on charges of having conspired with the American Sugar Company to restrain interstate commerce in violation O. the Sherman antitrust act by prevent ing the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company from doing business; and several cases involving prosecutions under the pure food and drug act.
 The last of the advanced cases is the socalled World Libel suit. The