The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-26
Waiting on the Action Of the Supreme Court is
A administration Which is Expecting More LQurels

Washington, June 25.-Although
this administration has already earn
ed the reputation of being a trust
busting machine, greater laurels may
await it when the Supreme Court OF
the United States convenes in October
next. Past experience has demonstrate
ed that the wheels of Justice move
slowly, but since Congress has passed
an expedition" act largely measure
based upon the statute books through
the influence of Attorney General
great public interest have been pushed
forward for early decision.
Cases in which the government IS
an interested party have been allows
to cucumber the record of the Supreme
Court through the Discrimination of the
government to push the cases, and
purely because other matters have oc-
cupied the attention of the govern
ment prosecutor. The docket of the
Supreme Court today is so crowded
with cases mostly of a private nature
ing cases in which the government is
a party, that it is thought it will take
that body at least three years to clear
the record. Should the government
cases follow the regular call, that is,
await their turn on the record it would
take at least six month from the time
the Supreme Court convenes before the
first case would receive a hearing, and
fully year after that before the sec
ond case could be considered.
Under the government expedition act
however, the Supreme Court has ad-
vanced for argument IN October the
most important cases in which the gov
eminent is interested. Hearing on the
cases in open court will occupy the at
tention of the jurists until January,
when the bench takes recess for the
purpose of compiling decisions For
this reason. it is expected by the legal
ment of Justice, that a decision will
not be handed down in any of the very
important corporation cases until after
the Christmas holidays.
During the period of from October
to January forty-three out of fifty
three government cases have been ad-
vanced and assigned for hearing. Eight
cases affecting private citizens are also
scheduled for hearing during this tina.
An investigation of the record Of the
docket Of the Supreme Court shows
that in the first four hundred cases on
the docket call the United States has
sixty-six cases counting class cases as
one. The solicitor General of the De-
partment of Justice will appear in one
case in approximately every four and
a half In the first three hundred
cases on the regular call the govern
ment has seventy-two cases, counting
each case separately and appearances
will be noted in approximately one in
every four and one-sixth. In addition
to the above there are forty assigned
cases of which thirty-six cases are be-
yond the three hundred mark and four
within this number Should the JUS
tices of the Supreme Court hear three
hundred cases during it's next session
which will argue about one hundred
and eighteen cases.
Among some of the cases to be ar
gued and possibly decided within the
next six months are the peonage cases
involving the construction of a federal
statute and certain convictions in
Florida; the hours of service, act, a
cas- of extreme interest to all labor or
CARNATIONS, as in the case Of the Bucks
the American Federation of Labor, and
the contempt proceedings against Pres
ident Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison, who face Jail SEN
fences of from six months to a yeal
and six month; two cases under the
corporation tax law, as applied to the
holdings of real estate companies; the
case against Augustus Heinze, the cop
per king, who is charged with mis-
application Of funds of the Metropolis
tan National Bank Of New York city
the Tobacco Trust cases; the Standard
Oil cases and that of the American Su
gar Refining involving the principle;
of the Sherman Antitrust law, as cor
porations doing business in restrain
Of trade; the Atlantic Coast line rail
road, cases, testing the constitutional
ty of the initial carrier clause: thu
Hipolite Egg Co, the first case brough
to the Supreme Court Of the United
States involving construction of thu
pure food statute: four commodities
clause cases against the Lehigh allie.
railroad. the Erie railroad, the Contra
railroad of New Jersey and the Penn
sylvania railroad, and the case agains
the Press Publishing Co.. in which tn
Supreme Court will be asked to deter
mine whether or not President Roose
welt, William Nelson Cromwell, attor
ney for the French Panama Canal
Douglas Robinson. President Roose
velt's brother-in-law and Charles
Taft. President Taft's brother, were Ii
beled by certain articles which appear
ed in the New York World, in connec
ton with the purchase of the Panam;
Canal land.
Notwithstanding the fact that heav,
fines are imposed upon contractor
who import aliens for the purpose O
using them in various construction en-
: terprises throughout the country. in
stances are being daily reported to tn
Department of Commerce and Labo