The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-10
SUPREME JURiSTS
WILL HAVE QUITE
A BUSY SESSION
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SIX cases to be called the opening day
OF the October term.
The tobacco trust and oil trust
cases are to be reargued and the clerk
of the court has placed them on the
docket for November with out any
definite date. In each of these cases
the government has assumed the role
Of trust buster because Of its at
tempt to dissolve what It deems a
trust operating in violation OF the
Sherman antitrust act.
The Tobacco Case.
The case against the American To-
bacco company. generally known as
the Tobacco Trust" Is one in which
the supreme court must determine II
the company Is combination in re-
straint of trade. Several lower courts
have held 1t to be such while on the
other hand some of the courts have
decided otherwise.
Attorney General Wickersham is ex-
pected to personally appear before
the supreme court during the argu-
ments In this suit, although the gov
eminent will be represented the great
er part Of the time by it's solicitor
general. II Ia difficult at this time
to foretell the amount of time this
case will occupy before it Is disposed
OF. and on every side the issue is be-
Ing awaited with great anxiety.
This same uncertainty exists as to
the final disposition of the Standard
Oil case.
The contentious of the government
in the Standard Oil case are grouped
under nine separate heads. Among
them are: that. the company, a combi-
nation in restraint OF trade, a monop-
oily In violation of law: that is obtain.
ed rebates and discriminatory rates
In the transportation OF its products,
as against it's competitors and that
IL Is engaged in oppressive methods of
competition, thereby destroying the
| small manufacturers and dealers
throughout the country.
Possibly what is considered to be
next Of Importance are the corpor.
alton tax cases, which have been as.
signed for reargument at such time
as full bench will be present. No
definite date for a hearing has been
set. a...
Members Of Court.
The supreme bench today. not in.
Guiding Justice Moody, whose retire.
ment has been provided for by an act
of congress. but whose actual retire
ment has not been announced, is COM
posed as follows:
| John Marshall Harlan of Kentucky,
who is seventy-seven years old and
who has served thirty-three years: Ed.
ward d. White. of Louisiana, sixty.
five years old. has served nineteen
years: Joseph Mckenna, OF California,
l sixty-seven years old. served thirteen
years: Oliver Wendell Holmes, OF
Massachusetts, sixty-nine years old
has been on the bench eight years
William r. Day. Of Ohio. former sec.
rotary OF state under President Nc.
Kinley. sixty-one years old: has been
on the bench seven years; Horace H
Lurton. Of Kentucky. sixty-six years
old. appointed to the bench January
8 last.
Governor Hughes OF New York, who
was appointed early last summer to fill
the vacancy on the bench caused by
the death OF Associate Justice Peck
ham, and who was immediately con.
firmed by the senate. will be sworn
In as associate justice on the first day
OF October term. This formality will
be the first order of business wher
the court convenes.
| r. R~n>-f.. A.
Governor Hughes will take two oaths
One Is provided by q statute of Law
and 10 known as the judiciary oath
The ceremony is performed at. the
deck. OF the clerk OF the court, in the
presence OF the bench. the court Off
GERS members OF the bar and visitors
The other oath Is that administered