The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-03
CROWDED DOCKET AWAITS SUPREME COURT
 AT OPENING OF FALL TERM TODAY Taft First Ex-Presdent to Head
 Array of Pending Cases

Washington, Oct S.-The Supreme Court reconvenes today for the regu- lar Fall term No cases of national importance were placed upon it's
 For the first time in it's history,
 however, the court was presided over by a Chief Justice who for merly was a President of the United
 chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward Douglass White
 List of Pending Cases
 In addition to the half dozen anti trust cases awaiting decision there are pending several boundary and irrigation disputes between states as well as cases between states all leging trade discriminations. numer- out questions arising out of govern ment operation of railroads during the war; a railroad merger case.
 several cases testing the rights of organized labor during strikes, as well as it's responsibility flor losses resulting from act of violence durin g
 strikes, a large number of case in
 which railoads and other common carriers seek to have determined their liability for injuries suffered by employees, several challenges by states of the powers of the Inter state Commerce Commission in rate
 making and railroad control, the consituti onality of the prohibitory tax DOSed the feueGal govern
 ment upon child labor, numerous is
 sues arising out of the enforcement Of national prohibition and many land, patent. admiralty, bankruptcy, immigration, Chinese exclusion and | miscellaneous cases
 Under Advisement.
 The court has under advisemen ent and may. give it's opinion at any time
 in the Southern Pacific case, in volving control of the Central
 Pacific; the Coronado case, brought | by the United Mine Workers, aris1n g out of violence during a strike in Arkansas and involving the liability | of organized labor for losses caused by acts of violence; the Wisconsin case, in which Al other states joined l to test the right of the Interstate ! Commerce Commission to authorize | interstate railroads to raise their i Union case, in which the government sought to prevent the landing of a | cable at Miomi.
 To Be Rcargued.
 Some important cases are to be reargued before full bench. These | incluGe the United Shoe Machinery case brought under the, Clayton act
 to test a contract prShibiting les
 the manufacturing of shoes; the American Column & Lumber Co. case, a pr oceeding in which the gov ernment contends monopoly and re- straint of trade is obtained by agree ments under 9 so-called "Open Com petition Plan; the Atherton Mills case, from North Carolina, testing
 the act imposing a prohibitory tax on the products of mills using child labor: the American Steel Foundries
 and the Truax cases. the former from Illinois and the later from Arizona, in which the right of labor to picket during a strike is involved: Wyo- ming's effort to prevent the diversion by Colorado of water from the Laramie river; the Standard Fashion case, involving the question whether a dealer can by contract be re- | quired by producers to exclusively handle their products, and the l Dahnke-Walker Milling Co. case, in which state laws requiring persons | and corporations engaged in business 1 to register are being contested as re- i strietions to interstate commerce.