The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-06
Thirty.four Cases Advanced
For Oral Argument, All of
Which Will Be Heard During
OctOber-2S Different Cues
lions Presented

Washington. Oct. 6.-tP)-Con-
vening Monday for 4 new term the
supreme court found that the sum-
mer recess has produced cases eX-
ceeding any record in recent years,
but that the total number await
ing its consideration, including those
carried over from the last term, is
less than year ago.
The court will get down to bust
ness at once, having list of "a
cases set for oral arguments, but
it is expected to follow presidents,
and deliver no opinions during the
first week in any of the five cases
it has in hand from the last term
awaiting decision. These include the
famous Teapot Dome case, brought
to evict Harry +. Sinclair and his
companies from the naval oil reserve
in Wyoming. The others are one at
lacking validity Of cooperative mar
keting laws, raised by the Liberty
Warehouse company in Kentucky, an
effort by the Skinner & Eddy COM
pany to force Comptroller General
McCarl to pass on $9,00O,O00 claim
against the government, the right Of
states to tax the gross receipts of
taxicab companies in a case from
Pennsylvania, and a boundary dis
pute between Texas and New Mex
leo, involving land near Ell Paso.
Important Dispute
The most important dispute be-
tween states before the court which
probably will be decided during the
term involves Chicago's diversion of
water from Lake Michigan. Former
Justice Charles +. Hughes by direc-
ton of the court took evidence in
the Wisconsin suit against Illinois
and the Chicago sanitary district
and the case will be set for argument
soon after his report, including his
findings, is filed. There are two
other cases, one by Michigan and the
otkar by New York, which may be
controlled in a large measure by the
Wisconsin decision.
All told, the court will be con.
fronted with approximately STE
cases compared with 66S at the be.
ginning Of the last term, some OF
them Of outstanding importance
Owing to extraordinary efforts made
by the court during recent years tt
expedite the disposal OF accumulated
business 1t closed its last term II
June with 283 cases awaiting con.
slderatlon, against 400 the yea,
previous. IL the summer recess
about 292 cases We're filed compared
with only 25a during the previous
vacation recess.
Many Reviews Sought
About 2oO Of the cases placed O,
the docket since last June are pctl
tons asking the court to grant re
views, and Of these about one ii
tive will remain there to be DISPOSED
OF on their merits. About 200 will
be stricken from the list as soor
as the court has had an opportunity
to examine the questions presented
The "a cases advanced for argu.
ment, all Of which will be heard dur.
ing October, present 20 different
questions, and are headed by an at.
tack upon the law regulating iitneys
in Detroit. Near the top of the List
IS the case Of Swift e. Company ano
other packers to set aside a consen,
decree under which they agreed Il
confine their activities to the meat
packing business.
The list includes a number Of tax
cases, one from Michigan, attack.
ing the federal gift tax on state
securities; another from northern
Ohio questioning when dividends
were taxable under the act in effect
in 1917; one from Minnesota ask.
ing when net earnings could be
treate- as non-taxable surplus un.
der the revenue act Of 1918; an Okla.
homa appeal whether taxpayers in
the recovery Of money paid the gov.
eminent are restricted to the
grounds stated in their claims
neither their settl .nents made by
the commissioner Of internal revenue
are reviewable by the board Of tax
appeals and the courts, in q case
from Cincinnati, and whether in.
comes from leases on Indian lands
can Be taxed By the federal govern.
ment, IN two cases from Oklahoma.
pFohibitioa Cases
Several prohibition cases also havl