Show IN THE COURT i I OF LAST KESORT Long List of Important Opinion5 Are Rapidly Disposed Dis-posed of STATUS OF DECOY LETTERS AX INTERESTING CONSTITUTIOXAI QUESTION DECIDED I Arlcnnsos Lau Iilniitlnsr rnsbcjie Fares and nsiiigr Peiinltics Sus tnlned liOYFer Court T5i Ueld In t he Celebrated Oregon Chinese Ce Several JVnlinfif + Reversed Washington March 4The Supreme court met today after a recess of four weeks with all the justices except Mr attendance Jackson in atendance A long list of opinions was disposed of rapidly Many of them decided cases of great Importance The Interesting question ques-tion whether the conviction of a person by means of a decoy letter is legal Tftvs passed upon in the case of one Grimes convicted in Missouri for dealing in obscene ob-scene pictures He answered a letter from a postofflce inspector which resulted in his conviction and he appealed complaining com-plaining against the means by which it was secured The court held that decoy letters were both morally and legally justifiable jus-tifiable The decision of the Circuit court for the District of Massachusetts in the case of the National Cash Register company com-pany against the Boston Cash Indicator reversed the and Record company wan opinion by Justice Brown holding the defendants de-fendants machine Is an infringement on the National Cash Register An Interesting constitutional question was decided in the case of E S fimmert against the state of Missouri The former Is a agent or peddler of Singer sewing machines I was sought tp make him pay n peddlers license He refused contending con-tending that the machines came from New Jersey and that the license was a restriction on the constitutional right of interstate commerce The court held that being handled as 1 part of the local and domestic commerce they were no longer the subject of interstate traffic regulations and were properly subject to state police regulatons The Arkansas law of 18S7 limiting passenger pas-senger fares to three cents t mile and fixing a penalty of O for each overcharge over-charge was sustained Bustaned In the case of the United States against George H Pratt and Monroe Salisbury of California to recover excessive payments pay-ments made to them for carrying the mails the action of the court below in dismissing the case was reversed TEe conviction of Harry P Batchelor formerly president of the Stockgrowers National Bank of Miles City Mont for embezzlement by the circuit court for the District of Montana was reversed on the ground that the Indictment was defective The case of Bannon and Mulkev against the state of Oregon the plaintiffs having been convicted with twentyfive others of conspiring to bring Chinese laborers la-borers into the state contrary to the law was decided The chief allegation of plaintiffs plain-tiffs In error was that the Indictment failed to aver that the act was feloniously felon-iously done but tho cour held that this was not good and sustained the lower flojurt In the conviction |