Seward daily gateway., 1924-10-16

ed States Supreme Court, after be- ing in recess since June 9, recon vened Monday to remain in session until the second Monday in June, 1925. Chief Justine William Howard Taft presided at the opening session. Following a long g-established GUS tom the court rendered no decisions the first day, but the justices, after admitting a number of lawyers to practice. left the Capitol for the White House to pay their respects to President Coolidge.
 Arguments on cases advanced for early haering by the court will be- gin on Tuesday, October 7.
 Tn edocket for the present term gives every indication of being a heavy Gle.
 More tl4an TOO cases have been entered-nea.l 150 more than for the opening of the court at the last term. More than 300 of the 1,1O0 cases on the docket at the last term have been carried over for the present term, and the court is about two years behind in it's work
 There was a modification of the rules at the last term to facilitate the handling of cases, and these rules are expected to speed up the courts work for the rest. of year
 The cases brought by the govern ment to cancel the oil leases given by former Secretary of the Interior Fall to Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair are expected to reach the Supreme Court during the present term, but will not be decided, as the fight will be long and stubborn one.
 The court will hear a sidelight on these cases when argument starts in the government case against M. S. Daugherty, brother of former Attorney General Harry C.. Daugherty, for refusal to let a spe- cial senate committee, headed by Senator Wheeler, of Montana, have certain records from his bank, the Midland National, of Washington, Court House, Ohio.
 This case has been docketed in the Supreme Court on an appeal by the governent from decision of lower Federal courts sustaining M, S. Daugherty in his resistance a. gainst contempt proceedings before the senate for his refusal. The senate committee sought to ascer- tain the financial transactions of former ney-General Daugherty since November 1, 1920, suspecting it might lead to disclosures in the oil scandal. The lower Federal courts held the committee illegally sought to exercise judicial func- tions.
 Two important government anti 1 trust cases are before the court. The dissolution is sought of the Maple Flooring Manufacturers As sociation as a combination in re- straint of trade in maple, beech and birch flooring through ex- change among the manufacturers of sales, coats and stock reports. The association was adjudged guilty of Michigan Federal courts Action has been brought by the government against the National Biscuit Co.,, to discontinue discriminatory low pric- es to large jobbing purchasers, to 1 the detriment of the smaller purch- aserS.
 There are a number of cases be- fore the court seeking interpreta- tions of the various tax laws. Ex- ecutors of the $90,O00,0O0 estate of the late Henry c. Prick, of Pitts burg, Pa., are seeking to escape payment of $1,S80,000 additional es- tate tax to Pennsylvania, having paid the state s1,90O,000. They claim to have paid the additional tax un- der the estate tax laws of other states and countries in which parts of the Prick estate were located. Distributes of surplus of the Phelps Dodge Corporation and of stocks of the General Motors Corporation are trying to avoid tax payment on the ground the surplus was accumu- lated in years preceding the tax law enactment and the stock was div idend and not income