The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-15
SUPREME COURT
 IN SESSION
PENDING CASES WHICH ARE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE WHOLE
 PEOPLE.

QOltdrE IO commercial interests, the
 Supreme Court of the United States lsconvened at noon today. The Vaca- ton season had dealt kindly with the
 Justices. and they looked the picture of health they sat ons the bench listening to the old court crier l nounce the time shonored formula that sta11 persons having business with the 1 honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention for the court was now in session.
 All the officials of the court have been on duty for over a score of years The Justices nodded pleasantly to distinguished mem bers of the bar who were present for the opening, includ ] ing the Attorney General and members of his staff who. came to argue inn 1 portant cases which the Government is prosecuting.
 Following the opening of the court it is~ always the custom of the Jus their respects to the President, but as President Taft was out of the city, this courtesy was deferred until a later date. The court then took up number of applications for admission to practice before it and heard mo- tions for the advancement of cases Following this brief session, adjourn ment was taken until today, when arguments will be heard in a. number of causes specially assigned for hearing. The most important one will be the so-called bath tub trust case in which the enamel-ware manufac-
 turers are fighting the judgment of
 
 they have been guilty of violating the
 sherman law in maintaining an un- lawful conspiracy in restraint of patent to attach such conditions as he p1eases in regard to the use of his patentd article. when he sells or 1icen- cfSion is expected to throw new light on the relations between patents and the big manufacturing combines, and the extent to which the latter may go in controlling trade by the power of their patent grants. Lawyers for the trust claim that it's right to control it's patents should not be curtailed by ap- plication Of the antitrust law.
 The court will also take up famous 1 murder case. Porter Charlton, a locked up in a New Jersey prison to answer to the charge of murdering his wife at Lake Como, Italy, two s. to extradite him to Italy for trial in the Italian courts His counsel relations between this country and Italy there is no warrant in the law for returning him to Italy. The case
 is on appeal to the highest court from
 which refused to issue a writ Of habeas corpus granting him his liberty
 Charlton will soon know whether he
 will be set free here or be forced to return to Italy and stand trial for the murder.
 Cases to be argued include the Pat tempting to corner the cotton market,
 to which James A. Patten, the Chica-
 go speculator denurred in the Feder- al courts of New York on the ground that private ownership of large quan> titles. of cotton did not constitute a violation of the Sherman anti-t trust
 Scheduled for early argument are nearly a half dozen cases to deter mine the scope of the Hepburn rate law in it's application to the question of liability of railroads to shippers for articles lost in. transit. In suit originating in the loss of household goods shipped to Oklahoma, the ques- tion of whether this law limits the liability of the railroads for such ar in another case the question of wheth- CT the ebraska state constitution or the Hepburn law control the contract limiting such liability, is involved The loss of a horse shipped from Iowa to. Nebraska precipitated this issue There is also in dispute the question press companies to limit the liability incurred from the loss of shipments. This issue had it's origin in the ship ment of 8 ring from Ohio to Alabama. The ring was lost.
 The powers Of the Interstate Com naerce Commission are to be further to be argued The Commission claims Jurisdiction over the Chicago Stock Yards railways. The railways deny this right Another question involving the Commission, to be heard next week is whether the Commission may compel interstate railroads to grant connections with interurban electric railways. Certain of the latter rail- ways in the state of Ohio are de- manding this privilege.
 A new construction Of the pure food law is looked forward to in the de- termination of the status of frozen eggs seized on the ground that they therefore under the ban of the law. The title of this case is -Four hum dred and forty-three cans of frozen egg product vs- the United States"
 The court will snear argument on the question of what is authorized un- l der the New York state employers liability law to collect damages in re- l covery for injuries sustained
 The court will hand down no -opfn- l ions until a week from today, when it may make known it's determination in a<number of important cases that have been under advisen1ent all summer
 The most important of these is the l so-called Reading case'' in which the Government seeks the dissolution un- der the Sherman antitrust law, of the charging that railroads in the state of Pennsylvania are exercising com plete control over from to 95 per cent of the total output of anthracite
 How far the states may go, in de-.I terrnining the rates the railroads may freight and passengers will be largely defined if the court makes public next weekits decision in the Minnesota, | Tennessee Oregon and Nebraska rate cases The court will have to decide whether the states may make laws governing rates, which are declared h1y the railroads to be conf1scatory in their effect and hence unconstitution aI The courts decision in a large measure will determine whether a de- cade of legislation in Westeran and southern states aiming at reduction in railroad rates is to stand or fall
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