New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-09
SUPREME COURTS LABORS
Session Beginning To-day Will
Be important in Many Ways.
TO REVISE EQUITY RULES
Several Anti Trust Gases To Be
Decided and Railroad Rates
Will Be Settled.

Washington. oct. S-The Suprem~ Court
Of the United States will convene to-mor-
row at noon, after a four months recess
II Will Doc in session until the last Of next
MAY. and will consider a. many q the
eight hundred cases on the docket as time
VIII permit An estimate has i, that the
court VIII dispose OF about four hundred
cases during the term, but that about two
hundred additional cases will he docketed
before next June.
All the members OF tho court have ar
rived i'm the city with the exception OF As
sociato Justice Day. The illness OF Mrs.
Day has detained him at their home in
I Canton. Ohio. chief Justice White was
among the first 20 arrive. while Justices
Harlan, McKenna. Holmes. Lurton,
Hughes, Van Devanter and Lamar all re-
turned 20 the city in ample time for the
opening Of the term. Unlike most sessions
members OF the court returned from their
yaca ions 90 meet duties other t1an the
routine work Of their Offices.
Will Revise Equity Rules.
rh.f Justice White and Associate JGs-
tieee iufton and Van pevantor are to com
/ pl~ta their work. II possible az an early
/ date. of revising the equity rules Of fedora
/ courts Throughout. the United States A
/ their suggestion. the circuit Judges ap
pointed committees 20 recommend amend
meuts o. tho rules. which generally arr
/ regarded a- having outIivod their useful
D moss
Some &C these committees gro readr q
Submit reports Others are expected 20 scnC
/ iu recommendations soon. These recon-
/ mendauons Will bc considered by the com
/ mittee of the court headed by the chic
/ Justice. and a final draft Of new rules pre-
! pared for pronunciation. During the sum
mor Justice LurtoD spent some time fl
/ England learning directly the impression
/ q the English iurists who recently pre-
pared new equity rules for the courts o
that country.
/ on account Of the adjustment on Janu
| airy T. 1918. Of all circuit courts Of IN
| United States, leaving only the distric
courts. the Court Of Appeals and the su
preme Court. Il will be necessary 20 70
wise the rules governing procedure IN III,
| Supreme Court. II is believed that III
court will not only revise the rules so a
% meet the adjustment of the circUI
courts. but it win moiernize them IN many
! ways
Justice Hughes viii cave. in addition q
his court work. the completion OF his 70
port OF charges for mali service. He fl
chairman az the commission which ha
been investigating the subject PARTICULAR
with reference to the rates on second clas
matter The report Of the commission Il
expected 20 he sent TO Congress in Decem
T Der
A long list Of important cases. secont
only m The great Standard OF and To
bacco cases. will demand the attention O.
the court during the first month Of its ses
I sion. Three cases involve alleged viola
tior IF the sherman antitrust law. Thes
arc tho suits against the principal anthrs
cite carrying railroads ana coal oTnini
ror7ranies against tho railroads operating
the bridges over the Mississippi a. -
Louis. and against James A. Patten an
other prominent business men. who ar
( charged with obtaining . corner on the cot
/ .on market
Railroad rates IN KAnrucS-, West VIZ
-lnis Minnesota and oregon will Be con
-dered The so-caled elevator cases
win rast the power Of the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission. Cases involving M
rights Of Indians 70 ALLEVIATE their land snc
/ tho entry OF the so-called "Stracey Goa
/ and Claims" I'm Alaska VIII be contested