Evening star., 1936-05-31
COURT WILL FINISH
1'ir
.MOMENTOUS TERM
Six Anti.NeW Deal Rulings
& Mark Activities Since
:. 80
8 Last October.
ky the Associated Press.


! on one, the Supreme Court will con-
( clude tomorrow one of its most i'm
portant terms in the Nations history.
4 brief session will be held on the
final day to pass on the constitution
/ atty Of a New York law to fix min
frnum wages for women and children
s@and to decide a water diversion dis
pute between Wyoming and Colorado.
~ That will bring to $50 the number
s$of cases decided since the term began
fSiast October. The total last year was
SaS56. Approximately 1,l00 cases have
sfheen filed, but the court refused to
eteview most of them.
- After the session tomorrow the JUS
,aces will start their Summer vaca-
stion. Some will go to resorts, some to
Europe and two-Roberts and Van
ss1oevanter-will go to their farms.
s55; Decisions on Reviews in October.
tx Their rest will be interspersed with
work, however. All during the Sum-
3mer copies of petitions are sent to
xthem for their perusal so they may
keep abreast of the court work. They
will announce in October whether to
review the cases.
p Principal interest this term centered
]. in the decisions holding unconstitu-
'tional A. A. A., the Guffey act to regu-
slate the soft coal industry and the
municipal bankruptcy act and the
ruling upholding the Government con-
.,,tention that the Tennessee Valley
Authority could purchase transmission
lines from the Alabama Power Co.
fresh group of New Deal cases
will confront the justices next term.
Already they have agreed to pass on
the validity of P. w. A. loans for pub
. 1icly-owned hydro-electric projects.
:tsOther laws likely to pass under review
,,@%are the public utility holding company
saact, the Wagner labor relations
measure, the revised Frazier-Lemke
$farm mortgage moratorium law, the
railway retirement act and, possibly,
the social security act.
- Major Decisions.
E. Here are some of the major deci-
s.sionS during the term that started
9siast October.
~ The agricultural adjustment act was
held unconstitutional. to 8. Justices
Stone, Brandeis and Cardozo dissented.
The majority ruled the law violated
States rights.
- Decided 8 to /, that the Tennessee
Valley Authority could purchase trans
mission lines from the Alabama Power
: Co. The court did not pass on validity
@of the entire act. Justice McReynolds
eiissented.
= Held, to 3, the Securities Com
emission could not compel j. Edward
Jones, a New York dealer in oil stocks,
TO testify concerning a proposed issue
which he withdrew before 1t became
effective Justices Cardozo. Brandeis
land Stone dissented. Constitutional
,,ity of the act requiring registration
Hof issues of securities with the COM
EMISSION was not decided.
- Guffey Act Thown Out.
II Declared unconstitutional, to 3,
f3the Guffey act to fix prices and reg
3sulate wages and hours in the soft
coal industry. Price-fixing was not
ruled on directly, except that that part
of the act could not stand because
1t was so intimately related to the
&1abor provisions of the measure JUS
tices Cardozo, Brandeis and Stone
dissented, declaring price-f1xing should
= have been upheld Chief Justice
Hughes, in separate opinion, de-
#fended price-fixing. but agreed the
#labor provisions were invalid
In a case brought by Louisiana rice
millers, the court ruled unanimously
that s200,000,000 in A. A. A. process
ing taxes impounded in Federal courts
must be refunded to the taxpayers
: in view of the invalidity of the agri-
cultural adjustment act q.
Held unanimously the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board could not interpret
the 1888 home owners loan act in
such a way as to authorize Federal
incorporation of building and loan
associations, despite a States wishes
TO the contrary.
The 1884 municipal bankruptcy
4ect-lntended to help cities, counties
and other political subdivisions re-
ouce their Indebtedness through Fed
xeral bankruptcy courts-was held un-
constitutional, to 4, on the ground
1T violated States rights. Chief JUS
fttice Hughes and Justices Cardozo,
HBrandeis and Stone dissented.
Ruling on Liquor Taxes.
: Ruled, to 3, that the Federal Gov
Sernment had no right to impose a
special tax on liquor manufacturers
faand dealers in dry States, since the
prohibition amendment was repealed.
FJustices Cardozo, Brandeis and Stone
sdissented
: Louisiana law taxing newspaper
advertisements was held unconstitu-
stional by unanimous vote. 1t ap-
piled to publications with a weekly
circulation of 10000 or more
9 In ruling on one of the most
important antitrust suits in recent
wears the court unanimously held
that certain practices of the Sugar
institute, Inc, violated the Sherman
act barring restraint of competition.
The institute was formed to regulate
,sthe refining industry.
9 North Dakota's tax assessment
against the Great Northern Railway
was reduced on the ground the de-
preston had not been taken into con-
seloeration IN arriving at the figure.
The vote was to 3, with Justices
Stone, Brandeis and Cardozo dis.
@senting.
$ Maryland was given the right, in
unanimous opinion. to tax preferred
stock Of the Baltimore National Bank
owned by the Reconstruction Finance
Corp.
Milk Control Act Ruling.
3 A section of the 1884 New York
milk control act which permits deal
sers without a well-advertised trade
name to sell milk at one cent a quart
below those with a well-advertised
trade name was held constitutional.
IS to 4. Justices McReynolds, Van
Devanter, Sutherland and Butler dis
scented. A provision of the act which
limited the right to sell milk at the