The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-12

Washington. October 11.-Bccause
of the failure to have full bench
In the Supreme Court OF the United
States, a general readjustment of i'm
portant cases set last spring for con-
sideration this autumn was made to-
day by the court 1t was the first
business of the eight months term.
The Standard Oil and the Tobacco
corporation suits. under the Sherman
antitrust law. were postponed for re-
hearing from November IA to January
8. The corporation tax cases. involv-
ing the constitutionality of the cor
poration tax provisions of the Payne
Aldrich tariff law. which had been re-
stored to the docket for reheartng
before a full bench at an indefinite
date. also was assigned for argument
on January 8. So We're the cases IN
volving the question of the correct
penalty to be imposed on violators of
the twenty eight hour law, regulating
the shipment Of live stock. and the In
of the national pure food
law and drug act
Vacancies VIII Be, Filled.
Although Presiding Justice Harlan
did not, say so, it is expected that
President Taft will have filed the two
vacancies on the bench by that time.
and that the new members. the sue
cessors to Chief Justice Fuller and
Justice Moody, viii have assumed their
places on the bench.
The Importance OF the questions 1n-.
volyed also led the court to POSTPONE
until January a number of cases set
for argument to-day. The boycott and
contempt appeals, arising out of the
Injunction proceedings in the District,
Of Columbia. brought against the
American Federation of Labor by the
Bucks Stove and Range Company, of
1t. Louis Mo-, were reassigned for
January 16. President Samuel Comp
officials of the federation. all under
Jail sentences for contempt. We're in
court.
The hearing in the suit between vir-
ginia and West Virginia over the
amount of the s33,000.0O0 State debt
of Virginia, which the latter contends
West Virginia should assume by rea-
son of the latter being admitted into
the Union as a separate state. was re-
assigned for January 16.
The Kissel case, involving the ques-
tion whether or not the American
Sugar Refining Company and others
conspired to prevent the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining Company from doing
business, was postponed until Nov en-
Der 10 on account of illness of counsel
The cases involving the constitu-
tonality of the employers liability
law were reassigned for argument on
November 10.
Attempts to postpone consideration
of the cases involving the peonage
prosecutions from Florida and the
Missouri 2-cent fare law We're un-
successful. Argument of the former
was begun to-day. The latter will be
heard probably this. week,
Motions to Advance.
Motions to advance a large number
of cases were submitted to the court
Among these cases were those involv-
ing the constitutionality OF the Car
mack amendment TO the Hepburn rate
law, making the initial carrier respon-
gsible for goods throughout the route,
and the cases involving the consti-,
tutionality of the bank depositors
guarantee. laws OF Oklahoma. Nebraska
and Kansas. .5i1 Il
For various reasons nineteen cases
We're dismissed by the court Among.
fthese We're six cases involving the con-
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