The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-10-10
Hawaii Interested In This Test
aia Case Because Of Probability
That Prohibition viii Be In
Force Before Many Months
SUCCESSOR TO HUGHES
TO MAKE APPEARANCE
century-oId Precedents To Be
Followed Today When Mr..
Clarke win Be Received
and Given His Exalted Seat
CBy The Associated Pr.ssl

=. WASHINGTON, October 9-Recep.
ton of new Associate Justice, John
III. Clarke, of Cleveland, Ohio, adds un.
usual ceremony, observing century old
precedent in the opening today of the
1867 term Of the Supreme Court.
eA full bench for the first time in al.
most year will sit TO hear an array
Of cases Of national and international
importance. Justice Clarke was appoint.
cd last summer, to succeed former Jus.
Nee Hughes. The new Associate Jus.
ice, the third appointed by President
wilson, was formerly federal district
Judge in Ohio and will take his oath
Of Office tomorrow. He will be seated
~ the extreme left Of Chief Justice
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No opinions are to be given today
by the court. The Rrst decisions are ex
pected next Monday. In the absence
Of President Wilson from Washington,
tbe Justices win forego their usual visit
70 the White House TO notify the chief
executive that the court has reassem.
bled. Motions, however, will be re.
ceived tomorrow and arguments will be-
assigned for immediate hearing.
Lengthy Calendar
More than seven hundred cases await
disposition. About two hundred have
been filed since court adjourned last
june. Many government antitrust dis
solution suits under the Sherman Law.
entailing probable new interpretations
of that act, are to be argued during the
a.
them are the government 3 suits against
the so-called Harvester Steel, Coal
Moving Picture, Kodak, Posters,
Shoe Machinery, and Great Lakes Tow.
boat " Trusts. -
Argument is expected during the
week on the first of these-the federal
attack against the alleged anthracite
monopoly Of the Reading, Lehigh Val
Icy, Central of New Jersey and other
railroads. The government lost the
eases in the lower courts, as it did the
dissolution suit against the United
States Steel Corporation, which will be
reviewed later. FL
webb Kenyon Law Up r. (
The antitrust suit against the Inter
national Harvester Company, is to bt
freargued. Other important cases SET
f1r re-argument are TO- test constitution.
atty Of the Webb-Kenyon liquor law,
the Migratory Bird Act; the Underwood
Tariff Act g clause giving Ave per cent
dibeount on merchandise imported in
4meTiean vessels under the "most ia;
Nofed nation" treaty provisions, involvf
ing refund claims Of sec, 900 900; Oregon
laws providing for minimum wage for
women and q 10-hour day for men; a
Louisville, Kentucky ordnance segregat
sing blacks and whites, and the Mann
oWhite Slave" Act as to its applica,
tion TO cases having no element of com.
mercialized vice. This latter question
y raised in the celebrated Diggs- Cant
netti case.
Eur0pe's war also has brought new
questions before the court. The first
Il over possession of the British liner
AVpam, brought into Norfolk by Ger
man prize crew and ordered by Federal
Judge Waddill returned to the British
owners sfrr
Other important questions to be pass.
ed upon are suits from West Virginia
and Utah challenging legality Of the
United Mine Workers organisation;
Blue Sky laws Of Ohio, Michigan and
South Dakota designed to protect in
.vestigators from "wild cat" securi.
ties, Interpretations of the income tax
law; validity Of the North Carolina
liquor and Alabama domestic corpora
tion tax laws; prosecution of the Uni
ted States District Attorney H. Snow
dem Marshall of New York for alleged
contempt OF a congressional investigat-
ing e0mmittee; federal water power
rights on public landsj railroad land
grants in Oregon and California, and
numerous railroad cases entailing furth-
or application of the Hepburn, commod-
titles clause, employers liability and
other acts affecting common carriers as
well AS intrastate and interstate rate
regulation. a@
"A case Of special interest to railroads,
TO be re-argued, is over the so-called
ssrailway mail pay adviser" suits, to
determiHe basis for computing com
pensation for transportation of mails.
Workmen's Coupensation
The court now has under advisement,
with decisions expected shortly, cases
tasting constitutiOnality, for the first
time, Of workmen's compensation laws,
pnd their application, of Washington,
New York, Iowa and New Jersey.
Other eases in which opinions are
bending involve validity of Missouri s
ftshorf haul clause, prohibiting rail
roads from charging higher freight
rhtes for short than longer haul; ap-
plication Of Massachusetts ana Texas