Evening star., 1935-10-06
COURT TO OCCUPY
S1Q,0QO,ODO HOME
Many important Cases to
Come Before Highest Tri-
bunaI Tomorrow.

with legal questions closely affect
Ing the future welfare of the Nation
awaiting Its determination, the Su-
preme Court will convene at noon
tomorrow in its new $1o,000,000 home
facing the Capitol.
There will be no unusual ceremony
10 mark the opening session in the
1lrst building the country's highest
court has ever had for its exclusive
use.
The session tomorrow will be de-
voted to routine matters, but during
the next few months the nine JUS
tices may pass judgment on the con-
stitutionality of the New Deal phil
osophy as it relates to agricultural ad-
justment, electric power and sociologi-
cal reforms.
Although many visitors are expected,
there will be seats for only slightly
more than 800, many of which are
reserved for members of the bar, and
friends and families of the justices.
The court room. larger than the old
one, has only slightly greater seating
capacity.
100 Lawyer Applicants.
More than 100 attorneys have ap-
piled for admission to practice and
with their sponsors" they will make
up a large portion of the assembly.
Their induction will be the first
business transacted after the justices
take their places behind the massive
boys pushing forward their old chairs
the only relics of the old surround
ings.
After Chief Justice Hughes has dis
missed the lawyers, the clerk will pre-
sent motions which have accumulated
during the Summer. Then the court
will recess for week to discuss Ger
acknowledgements for reviews of
lower court decisions. Oral argu-
ments will not be heard until next
Monday.
Court attaches will be in their for
NAL morning clothes, as usual, bow
ing to the justices and receiving as
gracious salute in return as each
of the nine. led by Chief Justice
Hughes, file into the highceilinged
court room with its tall pillars and
warm rose drapes.
One ceremony which never failed
to thrill sightseers will be absent,
however. The old robing room, where
the justices assembled before court,
was separated by a main Capitol
corridor from the old court room.
Isle of Plush Ropes.
AS the hour for court sessions ar
rived, attendants would stretch plush
ropes across this corridor to make an
aisle for the justices. Squarely in
the center of the corridor the chief
justice would be met by the court
marshal, Frank K. Green. They would
bow, exchange low greetings, and
then Green would lead the chief
justice, with the associate justices fol-
lowing, through an ante room into
the court room.
In the new building the robing
room is in the section reserved to
the justices, from which the public
is barred by bronze gates A cor
ridor leads to an entrance in the rear
OF the court room. The greeting
ceremony, unless it is held in the
doorway, will escape the public eye.
The new building, of simple Greek
architecture, was begun four years
ago. Workmen are still applying the
finishing touches. It contains suites
for all nine justices, as well as con-
ference rooms, cafeteria, a private
dining room for the justices and two
press rooms-a distinct concession
along with the pnematic tubes for the
press in the court room.
There are delicate wood and marble
carvings throughout. An oddity is a
self-supporting spiral marble STAIR
way, five stories high, said to be the
only one Of its kind in the world.
In tall letters acros the main en-
trance reads this inscription: Equal
Justice under law"
Processing Tax Case.
Administration officials will look to.
ward the court at its October IA meet
Ing for an announcement as to
whether it will review the decision of
Boston Circuit Court holding proc
essing taxes invalid in the Hoosac
Mills case.
This Is considered in New Deal cir
eles one Of the most important of the
pending cases, involving the powers
OF the Federal Government under leg
Slation OF the last few years.
There have been indications that If
the court consents to pass on this case.
the Government will attempt to have
u argued IN advance of case already
on the docket, challenging the valid
ity OF the Bankhead cotton control
act IN which tax is imposed on gin
nlng OF cotton produced in excess of
the quota allotment.
other suits in which the tribunal
has been asked to rule include:
An action by stockholders of the
Alabama Power Co., contendine the
Government has no right to manufac-
ture and sell electricity in competition
with private companies through the
tennessee Valley Authority.
The Kansas Utilities Co.'S contes+
OF the constitutionalty of Federal
loans or donations through the pub-
Ac works Administration to finance
construction of municipal power plants
and distributing systems.
The contention in a Louisville cas..
tnat the Government has no power tn
condemn land for slum clearance and
low-cost housing projects.