The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-13
ASSOCIATED PressD

WASHINGTON ID. c.. oct. 1.-THE
Supreme Court Of the United States
will convene next Monday at noon for
one of the most important sessions i'm
It's history. During the coming eight
months it will have TO pass upon cases
profoundly involving the Industrial
and business life OF the nation. and
this fact adds importance to the pend
in changes in the personnel of the
great court occasioned by the death of
Chief Justice Fuller and Associate
Justice Brewer and the expected re-
tirement of Associate Justice Moody
Gov. Charles p. Hughes of New York
has been confirmed i'm the place of
Justice Brewer, and there appears ex-
cellent reason to expect that he will
be named in place of the CHIEF Justice.
although Associate Justice Harlan. the
senior surviving member of the court,
has been much spoken of for promo
ton to the Chief Justiceship.' In any
event, including Justice Hughes, there
VIII 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 i'm December.
1t also means undoubtedly that the
three great corporation cases upon
which the expectancy of the business
world is centered will not come up for
reargument at least until after tho
Christmas recess of the court OF
these cases two, the Standard OIL
case and the so-called Tobacco Trust
case, were set for reargument on No
vember IA. The series of corporation
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 fill
led, and that then the orporation tax
cases will be advanced and. with the
other two cases mentioned. will be
set for dates relatively early in 1911.
Aside from these celebrated causes.
a tremendous amount of work awaits
the court at the beginning of it's SEES
sion. Upwards of forty cases, many
of large Importance, have been assign
ed for argument next Tuesday or as
soon thereafter as possible Ordin-
arily each justice delivers about 80
opinions year; hence, if one member
were to undertake to cover all of next
Tuesdays docket he would not be
through until far into 1912
Unbroken custom reserves the first
day, Monday, theoretically at least,
to paying the 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 on con-
vening on the second Monday in Oc-
tober to go in a body to the White
House. Once or twice Cleveland was
away from the city, and Roosevelt ev-
en- more frequently. Nevertheless the
call of the docket of cases to be arg
ued has never been taken up on the
first day. Even if the President is not
in town, the Court adjourns, after re-
ceiving motions, until the following
day. This year President Taft will be
at Beverly; the fact will be announc-
ed by Justice Harlan presiding, ana
the court will adjourn. Largely on ac-
count of there not being a full bench
last term, many important cases were
set for argument, out of their turn,
for Tuesday. The continuing vacan-
cies may cause the further postpone
ment of several of them. The death
of Solicitor General Bowers may also
result in the postponement of a num-
Der Of government cases.
The first big case set for argument
is the dispute between the States of
West Virginia and the commonwealth
of Virginia as to the amount of money
the former owes the latter by reason
of the formation of separate govern
ments. Charles 2. Littlefeld, special
master of the court, last spring re-
ported that the amount varied from
about $3,OOO,OOO to 100000, accord
ing to the basis that might be ac-
cepted for settlement. Some of the
most prominent lawyers IN the coun-
try will appear before the court to
argue on exceptions to the report.
which will be preparatory to final
Judgment of the case