Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-25
S|TT|NGS IN LUXURY IN IDEAL NEW HOME
Quarters of Commerce Court Episcopal House of Mercy Re-
Amonu Finest in Land moved to the Suburbs
TERM BEGINS OCTOBER 2 TO GIVE GIRLS A CHANCE
Spacious With
Mahogany
IMPORTANT CASES PENDING THE MRS JAMES
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RateC a
Quarters of Commerce Court
Among Finest in Land.
TERM BEGINS OCTOBER 2
Spacious New Courtroom Finished in
Mahogany.
IMPORTANT CASES PENDING
Appeals From Decisions of Interstate
Commerce Commission in Rail
road Rate Cases.

The United States Commerce Court will
convene for the opening of its October
session Monday. October .. at noon, in
fits new courtroom in the Southern build
ing. at 18th and II streets. The outlook
is for very busy session In addition
to consideration and decision in num-
Der of cases which were heard at the
spring session of the court there are
twenty-eight cases on the court docket.
which has just come from the govern
ment printing Office.
The court which consists of Presiding
Judge Martin a. Knapp and Judges
Robert w. Archibald. William II. Hunt.
John +. Garland and Julian W. Mack,
will sit In a handsomely furnished court
room, one of the finest in the country. II
is said. Work the finishings of the
room. which is on the ninth floor of the
Southern building, Is almost completed.
The room. which is large. with glass
ceiling. admitting plenty of light, has
been wainscoted with mahogany The
judges bench. the bar and the desks in
the room are of the same material The
entire ninth floor of the building. with
the exception of part of one corridor,
which will be occupied by officers of the
Department of Justice, will be used by
the commerce court. The library and the
Judges chambers are all handsomely
finished.
Decisions Pending.
Among the decisions which will be
handed down at the coming session are
those in the lemon rate cases. the water
carrier cases. the Chicago stock yards
cases and the Louisville and Nashville
case to set aside an order of the inter-
state commerce commission prescribing
class rates from New Orleans to Mobile
and other cities in Alabama and FLORIDA.
The so-calIed lemon rats@&ase is SUIT
on the part of the railroads to set ASIDE
an order of the interstate commerce COM
mission prescribing the rates on lemons
in carloads from southern Can1ornla
to Denver and cities east of Denver
The argument made before the
court that when the Payne-Aldrich tarin
bill went into effect increasing the tarln
on lemons from the Mediterranean. de-
signed to protect the fruit growers IN
this country, the railroads took the OPP
portunity to increase their rates on snip
ments of lemons just the amount OF the
increased tariff on lemons. The railroads
and not the producers therefore. reaped
the benefit of the new tariff The inter-
state commerce commission issued an or
der prescribing the new rates of the rail-
roads.
Railroads as Packers.
In Chicago the stock yards and stock
yard railways were prevented by an or
der of the interstate commerce commits
sion from becoming interested in the
packing business, and the suit which will
be decided by the court will settle this
question
All of the cases which come before the
commerce court are suits instituted as
appeals from orders of the interstate
original jurisdiction in these cases. how
ever, and is not a court of appeals, since
the interstate commerce commission Is
not court and its orders cannot De
construed decisions of a court.
Under the law creating the court all
of the cases dealing with orders of the
interstate commerce commission ihsu,
tuted in the circuit courts throughout the
United Soates were transferred to the
commerce court.
Gases to Be Tried.
Cases which will be tried before the
court at the coming session include the
case of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Company and others to set aside an order
of the interstate commerce commission
prescribing the rail and water rates on
boots and shoes from Boston and New
York to Atlanta. Ga.
Another case is that of the Baltimore
an order of the interstate commerce
commission denying the right of carriers
TO make distinction in rates between
railroad fuel coal and other coal A
temporary injunction was granted by the
commerce court last May in this case and
an appeal taken to the United States
Supreme Court Still another case is
that of the Atchison. Topeka and Sante
Fe Railway Company, ct al. to set aside
an order of the commission reducing from
$50 TO $50 per car the charge for re-
frigeration of citrous fruits, where such
fruits are preceded and preiced by the
shippers.
Hours of Service Cases.
Ten of the cases scheduled for trial,
relating to the hours of service of rail-
road employees. and involving the Boston
and Maine and the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroads. all ap-
pealed from various circuit courts. will
not he heard, as the Supreme Court
meantime has rendered decision af-
firming the order of the commission pre-
scribing the method and forms or MONTH
~ reports of hours OF service or en-
ployes to be returned py the raifodo
companies.
Two suits of the Southern Pacific. in
volving class rates from Sacramento to
points west of Ogden and from various
eastern points to Reno, are on the DOCKET,
where they have been held pending the
decision of the commission in the inter-
mountain cases. recently handed down.
A third suit brought by the Atchison,
is in the same category. and all await the
decision of the companies and their at
torneys as TO furher prosecution beIore
the court A suit of the Chicago. ROCK
Island and Pacific. involving rates from
Rock Island TO Des Moines. may De DIS
missed by agreement of counsel
An Interesting Case.
One of the most interesting suits, be-
cause of hasty but unjust criticism or
the Commerce Court in connection with
II, is that of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
rAad, the Brooklyn Eastern District
terminal and John Arbuckle against the
government and the Federal Sugar Re-
fninS Company. This is the case at
fecting lghterage charges on sugar in
and near New York harbor in which the
commission had equalized lighterage
charges. thereby deprivng one company
of it's advantage over the other in that
respect. AS only two weeks remained in
which to carry out the orders of the
commission. the Commerce Court last
May granted a temporary injunctiOn
against the enforcement Of the ORDER