Arizona republican., 1910-10-07
WILL MEET
 0N MONDAY Assembly of Nations High
 eSt Tribunal
 NEW FACES ON THE BENCH Large Docket, Including Many Cases of General Public Tnterest-No Busi- ness Will Be Transacted on Opening Day.
NEW FACES 0N THE BENCH

Washington, D. C., Oct. 6.-The su-
 preme court of the United States will
 convene next Monday at noon for
 one of the most important sessions in
 its history. During the coming eight
 months it will have to pass upon cases profoundly involving the indus
 trial and business life of the nation, and this fact adds importance to the
 pending changes in the personnel of
 the great court occasioned by the death of Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justice Justice Brewer and the retirement of Associate Justice Moody. Gov. Charles F. Hughes of New York has been confirmed in the place of Justice Brewer, and there apPrars excellent reason to expect that he will be named in place of the Chief Justice, although Associate Jus tice Harlan, the senior surviving member of the court, has been much spoken of for promotion to the Chief Justiceship. In any event. includ- ing Justice Hughes. there will be three new men on this bench during the coming session.
 President Taft has said that he will make no recess appointments to the court; this means that the chief jus ticeship and the place of Justice Moody probably will remain vacant until the regular session of congress begins in December.
 It also means undoubtedly that the three great corporation cases upon which the expectancy of the business
 
 for reargument at least until after the Christmas recess of the court Of these cases, two. the Standard Oil case and the so-called tobacco trust case, were set for re-argument on November IA The series of corpora tion tax cases were merely restored to the calendar for re-argument In ordinary circumstances, this would throw them over for a year or more The general expectation is that none of the three cases will be taken up until all the vacancies in the court have been filled, and that then the tax cases will be ad- vanced, and with the other two cases will be set for dates re- latively early in 1911.
  amount of work awaits | the court at the beginning of its ses- sion. Upwards of forty cases, many | of large import, have been assigned | for argument next Tuesday, or as soon thereafter as possible. Ordin- | arily each justice delivers about thir- ty opinions during a year; hence if l one member were to undertake to | cover all of next Tuesdays docket he | would not be through with it until i far into 1912.
 Unbroken custom reserves the first | day. Monday. theoretically at least, | to paying respects of the court to | the president of the United States. | Before the time of Cleveland, it is said, the court had practically never | failed to adjourn immediately upon l convening on the second Monday in | October, to go in a body to the White House once or twice Cleveland was away from the city, and Roosevelt | even more frequently. Nevertheless the call of the docket of cases to be | argued has never been taken up on the opening day. Even if the presi- lent is not in town. the court ad- iourns after receiving motions, until the following day. This year Presi- ant Taft will be at Beverly; the fact will be announced by Justice liar Ian presiding, and the court will ad iourn. Largely on account of there | not being a full bench last term, many important cases were set for argument, out of their turn, for Tues lay. The continuing vacancies may | cause the further postponement of several of them. The death of Solic- tor General Bowers may also result | In the postponement of a number of government cases.
 The first big case set for argument | Is the dispute between the state of West Virginia and the commonwealth | of Virginia as to the amount of mon- ey the former owes the latter by req son of the formation of separate gov-