Evening star., 1936-10-13
HIGH TRIBUNAL il
HEARS ARGUMENTS
Turns to Cases Justices
Agreed to Consider.
Last Spring.

Having disposed of nearly 800 ap-
plcations for review of lower court
decisions, the Supreme Court justices
today began hearing arguments in
cases they agreed to consider last
Spring.
The court yesterday acted on 295
appeals, agreeing to review six con-
troversies involving New Deal legisla-
hon and declining to pass on three
others 1t agreed to review 81 cases
altogether. declined to pass on 224
and refused IA petitions for reconsid-
Grafton Of decisions made last term.
Although refusing to reconsider its
decision last year, invalidating the
New York minimum wage law, the
court agreed to review lower court
ruling that similar statute in the
State Of Washington Is constitutional.
The court also refused to review
several local cases, the principal ones
involving prison sentences imposed on
Representative John H. Hoeppel of
Hoeppel, for conspiring to sell West
Point appointment, and an attack on
the validity Of the married women'S
clause of the 1882 economy act.
New Deal legislation.
New Deal legislation involved in
yesterdays rulings included the Wag-
ner labor law, the public utility hold
Ing company act, the silver profits tax
and the revised Frazier-Lemke farm
mortgage moratorium law.
New Deal litigation the justices con-
sented to hear argued involved:
Whether the Government can hold
up rulings by lower courts on validity
OF the public utility holding company
act until 1t obtains final decision by
the Supreme Court on the legislation
in an action it brought against the
Electric Bond and Share Co. The Court
OF Appeals for the District ruled
against the Government.
A. so per cent tax on silver profits
In connection with the silver purchase
act. The Court of Claims held the
tax unconstitutional in a case field by
Percy K. Hudson Of New York.
Provisions of the railway labor act
authorizing collective bargaining be-
tween representatives of employees and
the railroads. The act, amended in
1884, was held constitutional by the
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in a
dispute between the Virginian Railway
and some of its employees
The 1884 legislation authorizing the
President to embargo sale of arms to
Bolivia and Paraguay for their Chaco
war. Nhe Southern New York Fed
eral District Court held the statute
was an invalid delegation of legisla-
tive power to the Executive.
Prison Made Goods.
The 1885 Ashurst-Sumners act for
bidding transportation of prison-made
goods into States that bar their sale
and requiring that such products be
labeled as convict-manufacture The
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld
the act in case brought by the Ken
lucky Whip & Collar Co., which man
ufactures leather goods at the Eddy
vile, KY, State penitentiary.
A dispute between the Holyoke
(Mass) Water Power Co. and the
Writing Paper Co. of Mas
sachusetts over whether rental OF
water power rights in the Connecticut
River should be paid the former in
gold or its equivalent in devalued cur
rency. The power company said the
lease so specified.
New Deal litigation the court re-
fused to review at this time involved:
The Wagner labor relations act,
of which was chal-
lenged by the Bradley Lumber Co. of
Arkansas. Six other cases attacking
The law have been appealed to the
high court and it may agree-perhaps
next Monday-to review one or more
of them.
The revised Frazier-Lemke farm
mortgage moratorium act, challenged
By the Phoenix Joint Stock Land Bank
of Kansas City. This was an appeal
from ruling by the Western Mis-
Iouri Federal District Court uphold