The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-12-29
SUPREME COURT LOSES
THREE JUDGES IN 1922
disposed OF 800 Cases OF the Thousand
Brought Before It During
Year

The United States supreme court
lost three OF its members during the
last year, but none as the result OF
the toll of time. e1
Associate Justices Clarke and Day ,
resigned to enter upon other duties, !
and Associate Justice pitney. suffer. /
ing from Ill health. elected to be re- I,
tired
The call of the League OF Nations
cause proved more attractive 10 Jus
tice Clarke than hisa exalted position
on the United States supreme court
and he resigned to devote his time to
At promotion. Associate Justice Day
vas appointed by President Harding
the umpire OF the American-German
claims commission. the duties of
when Mr.. Day considered sufficiently
onerous and engrossing, and he left
the supreme bench.
Filling two of the vacancies created
by the designations. President Hard
ing appointed George Sutherland OF
Utah. and Pierce Butler, OF Mime.
sofa. A third position on the bench
remains to be filled. with a wide field
rom which TO make selection.
During the year the. supreme court
lad before IL nearly 1000 cases on
appeals from decisions in lower
courts, original actions brought to the
,ourt direct and petitions seeking re-
views OF decisions made IN federal
and state courts. OF these Is disposed
II over 500, the other eases running
into the coming year. The term OF the
court extends from OCTOBER 10 June.
Outstanding among the many de
, ,isions rendered by the supreme court
vas one requiring a dissolution OF tn,
/, Southern 4 Central Pacific Railroad
companies and another declaring Ia.
Dor organizations liable under the an.
thrust laws for damages 20 proper.
| lies as result Of strikes declared by
| labor organizations.
Mighty fights had Leon wagcd in
| he lower courts over these two cases
| he government losing IN It's Efforts
to force a dissolution .. TIE two grea,
railroads ana labor having been pen
allied Tor treble damage IN Arkansas
| federal courts. BY the supreme court
decisions the government came on,
| lctor IN its railroad fight but labor
suffered a severe blow when the de
,!s.on of the lower court was sus
iained.
| In various opinions the court de
cided that the contracts used by the
| United States Machinery corporation
n protecting its patented snoemakinl
machines were illegal. that the woman
suffrage amendment was constitution
Al that the government had power L
authorize the Interstate Commerce
commission to increase the interstat,
md interstate railroad rates and fare.
aad that the United States Steel cor
poratlon was not a monopoly in re
straint of commerce. as prohibited b,
the antitrust laws.
The supreme court upheld the val
dlty OF the Kansas Industrial cour
law ana affirmed conviction under /
Alt Xander Howat. prominent labo,
.eader, nor contempt In refusing [,
jbey orders issuing from II and iron
federal courts to which appeals wer
taken.
New York state lost through n,
| Ffs'+'NH " Viz NNulA It's llkEI 10 Ell
orce orders directed against var!ou
,as companies uoing business In Ne,
York CITY and surrounding co,nmun
.ies requiring them TO charge 4 lowe
price for service.
Various housing laws of the fedora
government and of the state of Ne,
York continued after the war perio
to prevent alleged proiiteering wer
sustained In their validity by IN
United States supreme court.
Many cases attacking the validit
of the Volstead prohibition law an
constitutionality of the prohibitio
amendment were disposed of by N
court, all decisions sustaining the la
and the amendment
In the long-standing contest h.
tween the states of Texas and Ok,
homa as to the ownership of Re
Rlvor, valuable for oil discoveries. d,
d court decided that the Red River wit
in Oklahoma Is unnavigable and Okl
homa had no claim to Il, in