Evening star., 1923-10-01
SUPREME COURT
OPENS FALL Term
Convenes, Hears Motions and
Then Calls on President.
Heavy Docket Awaits.

The Supreme Court of the Cnited
States. meeting today for its new
term after 4 recess since last June.
found a heavy docket awaiting its
attention. All of the justices returned
to their seats upon the bench much
refreshed by the vacation rest, and JUS
tees aIcKenna and Holmes. the two
senior members. long past the age
when they We're eligible for retire
mert. seemed well prepared for their
exactirs labors.
Only motions, including those for
admission to practice before the court,
were in order today, the court after
receiving them having decided to ad-
journ in order TO call at the White
House to pay ITS respects TO the Pres
ide7t.
Call at white House.
II was the FIRST time the court in
a body has met President Coolidge.
The President received the court in
the historic eaS. room. There it
lined up in a horseshoe, with the
Chief Justice at one end and the jus
tices following in the order of@senior-
ity beginning at the end where the
Chief Justice stood, President Coolidge
passed along the line, giving each
member q handshake and expressing
his pleasure upon the justices return
from their vacation strengthened in
health.
The court will hear arguments to-
morrow, the call beginning with the
first case on the appellate docket, and
1t hopes to dispose of the first thirty
during the week. several of them be-
ing noted for dismissal on motion by
counsel and number being listed to
be submitted to the court without
oral argument. .-
$50 Cases Are Pending.
A total Of $50 cases are awaiting
disposition. OF these 36s were brought
over from the last term. which ended
in excess Of zoo cases were docketed.
most of them requests for permission
to bring up for review cases disposed
Of in lower courts which could not
be brought up as a matter Of right
under writs Of error;
il carried over under advisement
twenty cases in which the courts de-
cision may be expected any time after
It reaches its first opinion day, Oc-
tober s. Four present attacks upon
the constitutionality of the alien land
laws of California and Washington,
four question the taxability of So
called Massachusetts trusts" under
federal statutes, and the others in
clude controversies arising out of the
use of water Of Bitter creek, Wyo-
ming, for irrigation purposes; what
counties may do with money. paid
them by the federal government
under forest reserve laws; North Da-
kota's claim against Minnesota for
damages growing out: of: flood condi-
tions along the Bois de Sioux river
etc.
West Virginia wants to reopen the
cases brought against it by Ohio and
Pennsylvania, in which the court held
that West Virginia could not impose
restrictions upon the quantity of nat
ural gas which could be pumped into
other states from wells located with
in it's borders.
The government wants the court to
review its construction of. North Car
olina statutes in case brought
against the Federal Reserve Bank Of
Richmond. in which the court sus-
tanned the contention that state
could sauthorize its banks to impose
a collection charge in the cashfng Of
checks drawn upon them. 1t would
also have the Mickey" Arnstein case
reopened, contending that the deci-
sion rendered in Il by the court last
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