The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
COURT OF UNITED STATES IS
 TO OPEN TERM
 WITH TIP CASES
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 man prize crew and ordered by Fed- ero1 Judge Waddill returned to tho British owners.
 Other important questions to be passed upon are suits from West Vir- ginia and Utah challenging legality of the United Mine Workers organiza- tion; blue sky laws of Ohio, Michigan and South Dakota designed to pro- tect investors from wildcat" se- curities; Interpretations of the income tax law; validity of the North Caro- lina liquor and Alabama domestic cor poration law laws prosecution of United States District Attorney H. Snowden Marshall of New York for al- leged contempt of congressional in-. vestigating committee; federal water power rights on public lands; railroad land grants in Oregon and California and numerous railroad cases entailipk further application of the Hepburn. commodities clause, employers liabil- ity and other acts affecting common carriers as well as intrastate and inter- state rate regulation.
 A case of special interest to railroads to be reargued, is over the so-called
 railway mail pay adviser" suits, to de- termine basis for computing compensA- ton for transportation of mails
 The court now has under advisement, With decisions expected shortly cases testing constitutionality, for the first time, of workmen's compensation laws, and their application, of Washington, New York. Iowa and New Jersey
 OTHER IMPORTANT CASES
 Other cases in which opinions arc pending involve validity of Missouris short haul' clause prohibiting railroads from charging higher freight rates for short than longer haul application of Massachusetts and Texas foreign corpor- ations excise tax laws; power of federal judges to suspend sentences in criminal cases, and Pennsylvania suits against railroads for heavy damages for failure to deliver cars to shippers.
 While the court opens it's new term with more than 700 cases upon it's docket, and approximately one year behind in 1ta work, much greater speed in disposing Of cases is expected. A new law enacted just before Congress adjourned, 1t Is be- lieved, will reduce the number of cases heard by the court by from 25 to 30 per cent This law will cut off appeals in bankruptcy, employers liability and cases from the Philippines. together with many from state courts, except with con- sent of the higher court, instead of at the option of the lower courts or litigants, as at present It does not. however, curb the courts power to order review of any case. The new law also adds another week to the supreme court term. requiring that it convene the first in- stead of the second Monday in October. and limits filing of appeals to the high court to three months instead of allow- ing two years, as at present.
 ANTITRUST ARGUMENT
 Argument of the first of the cases or the 712 on the courts docket will begin Tuesday when the governments an[i- trust suit against the Reading railroad interests, charging monopoly of the an- thracite coal industry, will come up. Bulky briefs have been filed by both sides and an array of eminent counsei will appear Following this case simi- lar one against the Lehigh railroad Will be heard Hearing of the Dfggs- Cami- netti and Hayes cases, involving whether the Mann act applies to the transporta- tion of women where no question Of com mercialism is involved, will probably pc postponed to afford the government more time for preparation. Consideration or the so-called steel trust suit mas been asked during February, and the time for reargument of the so-called Harvester trust case still is uncertain.