Evening star., 1925-10-05
SUPREME COURT
OPENS NEW TERM
7e0 Cases Await Action on
Crowded Docket-InvoIve
Maze of Issues.

/ the beginning Of its new term at noon
/ today, the number of cases showing
the normal increase during the Sum
mer vacation despite the new rules
enlarging the courts discretion as to
what cases it shall hear.
A time honored feature of the open
ing session day, the visit Of the court
| TO the White House to pay its respects
! to the President, was omitted from the
program today, due to President Cool
! idge's absence from the city TO attend
! the American Legion convention al
I Omaha.
With the usual recess for this omit.
| ted, the court was able TO enter at
! once upon the crowded business of
/ the term, first hearing various mo-
/ tions and then calling the docket of
original cases in which States are
parties for the purpose of eliminating
those not prosecuted with reasonable
diligence.
Oral arguments will occupy the
court throughout the week, and the
first decisions of the term will not be
handed down until next Monday.
1SO Cases OH Docket.
While approximately 100 cases We're
added TO the docket during the Sum-
mer TO bring the total roundly to 7S0,
practically all of these We're petitions
Tor writS of certiorari, and most of
them will be promptly denied by the
court in exercising its discretion as to
which it shall review.
Under the new law restricting the
causes OF action which may be
brought before it either by right OF
appeal or on writ of error the court
substantial N
roads this year in reducing the num-
ber of cases carried over.
Ten completed cases, in which argu.
ment had been concluded, We're car
ried over by the court when 1t re-.
Cessed last June.
The more important in general in
terest among these cases are those
against NJ. S. Daugherty, brother of
the former Attorney General, to de-
termine the power of a congressional
committee 10 require the attendance
OF witnesses and the production of
books. Daugherty resisted the au-
thority of the Senate committee in
VeStigating the Department of Justice
The authority of Congress TO restrict
the power of the President to remove
officials appointed to offices created bv
it also must be decided. This case was
brought by a former postmaster at
Portland, Greg, removed during the
Wilson administration.
Boundary Cases Listed.
On the original docket are a number
OF boundary disputes between States.
including proceedings by Massachu-
setts as claimant TO lands in Roches-
ter, y. Y; by Wisconsin, in which
several other lake States want to Join
against the sanitary district of Chi
InrSnr- L,
Federal Water Power Commission.
Among the SAG cases carried over.
and on many of which decisions are
expected during this term. are those
involving the validity of the sale of
German dye patents to the Chemical
Foundation; constitutionality of the
California syndicalism law and, the
Arizona minimum wage law for
women; legality of the Montana gaso.
Ilne tax law. and constitutionality of
the California community tax law.
Cases filed during the recess Of the
court included one by the Kansas
City Southern to test the Interstate
Commerce Commissions valuation
practices. Several others were filed
to test the legality Of the Govern
ments methods in various phases of
income tax assessment and collection.
a list Of the cases awaiting deci-
sion includes those involving these
questions:
Congress Powers Case Up.
The extent of inquisitorial power
of Congress over business, presented
in the demand Of the Federal Trade
Commission for information from the
Claire Furnace and q other corpora.
tions.
Whether the Pacific States Paper
Trade Association and others had
violated the Federal Trade Commits
sion act.
The constitutionality of the Sec
ton of the Federal future trading
act taxing puts and calls, in a case
from Kansas City.
The constitutionality of the Penn
sylVania statute prohibiting the use
of shoddy in articles of bedding.
The validity of Kentucky's methods
OF taxing railroads.
The validity Of the Utah law max.
ing insurance companies liable for
accident insurance policies in cases
of suicide.
The validity of the Alaska excise tax
imposed on salmon canning industry.
Validity of prohibition search war
rants issued upon information and
not upon evidence obtained through
NiiS INi Sciie'l IiiNSSl46ilioii vi pI
ton agents brought from Cleveland.
Whether physicians may prescribe
at one time more than one dose Of
narcotics. raised by DIR. A w Boyd Of
eastern Tennessee.
The right of owners to cancel real
estate leases when the property is
used in the violation of the prohibi.
ton laws, raised by James Duignan of
New York City.
Whether an automobile being pur-
chased on the installment plan can be