Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-03
MANY CASESIN
!. SUPREME COURT
Fall Term Opens With Ex-Presi-
dent Presiding For First
Time I

yWASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-The Su-
preme Court reconvened today for
the regular fall term. No cases of
national Importance We're placed up
on it's docket during the summer re-
cess.
For the first time in it's history,
however, the court was presided over
by a Chief Justice who formerly was
a president of the United States
William Howard Taft, chosen to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Edward Douglass White.
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 alleging
trade determinations, numerous
questions arising out of government
operation IL railroads during the
war, railroad merger case, several
cases testing the rights of organized
labor during strikes, as we'll as the
responsibility for losses resulting
from acts of violence during strikes,
a large number of cases in which
railroads and other common carriers
seek to have determined their liabil-
ity for injuries suffered by en-
ployes, several challenges by states
of the power of the Interstate Com
merce Commission in rate-making
and railroad control, the constitu-
tionality of the prohibitory tax i'm
posed BY the federal government
upon child labor, numerous cases
arising out of the enforcement of
national prohibition and many land,
patent, admiralty, bankruptcy, i'm
migration, Chinese exclusion and
miscellaneous cases.
The court has under advisement
and may give its opinion at any time
in the Southern Pacific case, involv-
ing control of the Central Pacific;
the Coronado case, brought by the
United Mine Workers, arising out of
violence during a strike in Arkansas
and Involving the liability of or
ganized labor for losses caused by
acts of violence; the Wisconsin case,
in which Al other states joined to
test the right of the Interstate Com
merce Commission to authorize in
terstate railroads to raise their rates
within a state, and the Western
Union case, in which the government
sought to prevent the laying of a
cable at Miami.
Some important cases are to be re.
argued before full bench. These in
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cases brought under the Clayton act
tp,test a contract prohibiting lessees
&n using other machines in the |
manufacture of shoes; the American I
Column & Lumber company case, a
proceeding in which the government
contends monopoly and restraint OF
trade is obtained by agreements I'M
der a so-called "Open Competition
Plan" the Atherton Mills case, from
North Carolina, testing the act inn
posing a prohibitory tax on the pro-
ducts of mills using child labor, the
American Steel Foundries and the
Truax cases, the former from Hill
nois and the latter from Arizona, In
which the right of labor to picket
during a strike is involved; Wyom-
ings effort to prevent the diversion
by Colorado of water from the Lara
ME river; the Standard Fashion case
involving the question, whether a
dealer can by contract be required
by producers to exclusively handle
their products, and the Dahnke-Wal-
ker Milling company case, in which
state laws requiring persons and
corporations engaged in business to
register are being contested as re-
strictions to interstate commerce.
At the head of the cases assigned
by the court for argument to begin
on October 10 is one of the numerous
New York gas cases based on IN
creased rates. The next case to be
heard by the court, according to
schedule, relates to prohibition regu-
la'ions, in which Charles Cornell and