Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-10-18
Big SUPREME COURT DOCKET
TRIBUNAL ENTERS UPON MOST
IMPORTANT TERM,
Tobacco Trust, Standard Oil, Corpo.
ration Tax, Virginia Debt and 9th.
Or Cases Of Great Significance.

Washington, Oct. 11.-When the
supreme court reassembled 1t entered
upon one of the busiest and most i'm
pOrtant terms in recent years. Ow.
ing to the illness and unusual number
Of deaths among the members of that
high tribunal during the last two
; years, the docket is piled high with
cases, including such important ones
as the tobacco trust, Standard Oil, and
corporation tax suits.
AS no successors have been appoint
ed to the late Chief Justice Fuller or
Associate Justice Moody. whose res.
ignation takes effect November 20,
the bench will be short two of it's full
quota for the present. Associate Jus.
tice John NJ. Harlan, the senior men,
Der Of the court, has the distinction
Of presiding over the tribunal until
new chief justice has been confirmed
by the senate.
1t Is not considered probable that
the more important cases will come
before the tribunal before January,
as President Taft is exceedingly anx-
lous to have full bench to hear these
cases.
It is probable that the president
may name the new justices before con-
gress convenes. but they would not
be able to serve until their appoint
ments had been confirmed by the SEN
ate. In view of the fact that con-
gress will adjourn very shortly after
converting December 5. for the Christ
mas holidays, it naturally follows that
the court will not have a full bench
until after the first of the year.
When the court adjourned last May
there were $50 cases on the docket
which had not been disposed Of Since
then LOG cases have been filed with
the court, thereby making the total
number Of cases on the docket today
692. The last October term of the
court was ushered in with 5S7 cases
for the supreme body to act on.
Virginia Debt Case Is UP.
Although the tobacco trust, Stand
ard Oil. railroad and the corporation
tax cases are regarded as the most
important ones now before tho Su
preme bench, there are number of
other cases of considerable national
One of the latter is the
original act of the state of Virginia
against its next-door neighbor, West |
Virginia, in which several million dol
lars are involved as a result OF the |
division Of Virginia in its original
state. The suit consists of an at.
Tempt to compel West Virginia to
part of the debt that existed
n Virginia at the time of the division.
There are two peonage cases ap-
2ealed by the state of Florida; the ap-
peal Of q number of railroads in the
western territory in the suit brought
~ them against the railroad commits.
lion of Missouri; three criminal cases
brought by the United States on ac-
'ount Of alleged violations of the pure
Gods and drug act; the appeal of the
United States from the United States
ircuit court for eastern Missouri in
ts suit against the Western Terminal
of ST. Louis, which is
,nown as the Eads bridge monopoly
ase; and the libel suit of the United
states against the Press Publishing
cmpany Of New York which grew out
f articles printed In the New York
World about Theodore Roosevelt, Will
am Nelson Cromwell and others in
with the sale of the Pana-
la canal