New Britain herald., 1926-10-04
IMPORTANT CASES LISTED ON DOCKET
Supreme Court Resumes Its
 Sessions Today

Washington, Oct. 4. Ps-The Su-
 preme Court will begin today a new term confronted with many contro-
 versies of vital importance.
 Antitrust, Clayton and Federal Trade Commission acts have brought
 issues of moment in industrial and
 commercial life. There is no ma
 terial decrease in the flood of pro-
 hibition cases. The enlarged use of automobiles has injected new prob lens. And rate regulation, insurance and tax cases appear in undiminish- i ed number.
 During the summer recess 240 1 cases were filed, and the court car ried over from last term 43S cases I on it's appellate and Ia on its origin | al dockets. Thus the total at the start of the new term Is about nine
 ty less than last year.
 Fortunately for the court 1t will not be required to write opinions in 1 these cases. because many of the new ones are petitions for review within the discretion of the court, and will be denied as soon as the briefs are read, and the unimpor- tance of the controversies ascer- tained.
 Of the cases carried over twenty two were fully argued last term and are in the hands of the court await ing the preparation of opinions. It Is understood that some opinions were written during the recess. and will be delivered at an early opinion day. The court Is expected to follow precedent, however, and deliver no opinions tomorrow. Motions will be received, however, and then the real work of the term will begin with the argument of cases. During the last term the court advanced sixty-six for oral argument during the month of October. and most of its time during the month will be occupied with them.
 Cases in the hands Of the court awaiting decision, include the Mally s. Daugherty proceeding, involving the power Of the Senate to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers before it's in- vestigating committees Questions raised In other cases include the power of the President to remove postmasters of the first four grades without the consent of the Senate; the authority of Congress to require corporations to make reports to the Federal Trade commission regarding costs, production, output and other matters which the corporations re- gard as trade secrets; three criminal syndicalism cases from California, Michigan and Kansas; the right of physicians to prescribe intoxicating liquors irrespective of limitations under the prohibition law; the validi- ty of the purchase from the Alien Property Custodian of German dye and Chemical patents, trademarks and copyrights by the Chemical Foundation; and the legality of Wa ter rates at Indianapolis.
 Among sixteen cases set for ar- gument during the first week of the new term the one attracting mott attention is that of Edward l.. Do- heny, seeking to retain leases on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve and to collect from the government for storage tanks constructed for the navy at Pearl Harbor Hawaii
 During the second week in Octob- CT among the more important cases to be argued are those by Insurance companies against Ohio, Maine and Wisconsin to test out the rights of states to require them to place busi- ness through resident agents and proceedings involving the validity of zoning laws, in case from Euclid. O., and of daylight saving laws in a case from Massachusetts, and ques- tioning the right of corporations to control sale prices by designating merchants as their agents In a case against the General Electric and other companies.
 Gas rates in greater New York will come up during the third week, as will cases from Georgia and Wis cOnein questioning the right of states