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Show pPREME COIII 10 I 'DEM II TODAY flany Imporlanl Cases Set for Hearing Early in the' r Present Term. UTE MATTERS LATER r tetion ol the Newly-Created Court of Commerce Will j Be Reviewed. ' !y International News Service. WASHINGTON, .Jan. 7. When llic sn-rme sn-rme court resumes Its Inhori? after be holiday recess tomorrow It will be J lipar com of 1 lie most Important of bt nine hundred ami more cases on-rod on-rod upon the docket of the present jmi. The rapes of most general Inter-il Inter-il now before the court the so-called illronri rate cases from several states I the union have been postponed until 'tertiary II. when It Is oxpeelcd the twlrlent will hnvo filled the vacancy on jit bench fronted by the death of Jus-ice Jus-ice Harlan At the wme time the ap-wls ap-wls from recent decisions of the com-Krcc com-Krcc eoiirl. nullifying orders of the In-srgtalc In-srgtalc commerce commission, will bo rd to tho full bench. ,Tlic rases assigned for hearing on the ..-"Her date, however, involve important fco1nlK and arc of particular interest to Iwic giwcmniont, Several of these svow , gHfot of i fforth to set aside onlcvn of the KBultrcln'f ommPive commission, two of :U'wa b'lng appeals from decisions of the flBtsntinori t. court upholding the commls-fimnit'ii commls-fimnit'ii orders. In these two latter oases, Ier. tin- decisions were liaiavorable : fIhpp-ts. In the commerce court (o be be.ird later the railroads were he sjff ctii-rul couteslanls. t on Demurrage, of the cases from the commerce widen b nri for Monday, is the ro-f ro-f thr hght of the Merchants' and crs association jf Cincinnati to s-i s-i reduction of class rales to Chat-m. Chat-m. Tl . ullier was brought by the r A- Gam llc company to annual the rtage rule of the commission which li rHllroads to collect demurrage f. on ta nl; cars owned by the oom-cveit oom-cveit ullc standing on their own i of the onn nsslgned for Monday heeled against II. C. Miller and M. Iller I'hltadlphla praln mortmains, lulsition of Ihe law prohibiting re-f, re-f, In aicpptlng less than the estab-I estab-I rntr on uhlpmonttt or wheat to onvllle The Indictment aganiht them 'iwishod lu the lower court on the lil that It did not show that tin.' cs-lird cs-lird ratcH were posted and published milled b low. ahor case concerning tho efficacy of iw nBf.ltisi the Impot tatlon of aliens, I't tlie Nord Oeulseher I.loyd ifhlp company. The company brought i'w York two allena. ofler reUlrlng to tnahe comlltlonal payment for iee for their n-lurn to 1-jurope against ;ostlblHv of their deportation. The were held up at Kills Island and !j back. The steamship company re-d re-d the return passage moiny paid vance. The lower court dismissed tho on tlm technical ground that the act :! tool; place In P.romen. outside lut-lodlctlou of the court, but pointed Unit the methods of the steamship t wntiiiiny constituted an obvious way of Vr)ldlntr Uie provlslotis of the law which i fiU s ln ,l,k of importing aliens upon lw Btcamfltlp companle.t. ;0asc From Oklahoma. if llT''6 lng standing controversy whetlier V or not the frocdmen and free colored per-ff'js per-ff'js of the Cherokee nation should par-"clrale par-"clrale hi the distribution of tho money nil landH belonging to the nation also I. Wmcji uj, f0l. niml adjudication. The con-ff con-ff ttoverny began in ISS.1 and the Uawcs jMji rjinimlsxlon and several other conimls-A conimls-A Jl0 a.ltcinptod In vain to settle the mat- 1 ti Wo fa, one from Oklahoma und the J? l'Kii'r from MlmiiMota, involve tho val-9 val-9 jaiiy of laws, of theae two states impos-tlf impos-tlf "'R eciinhi license taxes upon express p JJmimuli!R. in ti,0 ca!iu f Oklahoma, the4 1h nadc that the treasury of the .,5 fVw ls w'lbout funds to pay current aciJts nm, tl)Rt the m0llcy to te collected Jinrjcr the law, if n (s bold constitutional ';Wli Mipply this ilcrtcicnoy. id """ther curious question presented by V P" of the caos assigned for January f hi" .pi iWnrl,lcr masters of steamers bringing P 'til . 15 sPinen and members of crews 4 , Alerlcan harbors may be prosecuted h5i. C.tn' exclusion lawi. The lowr court i f J , V'nl l"c nuestlon whether tbo China- ; JP nta Intcniied to loave or rt-maln "'as an I J nnd took tho ground that tl"'r' attached to the crews of vessels f? ?,",lcl1 merely touched at American ports I Jtw "l comc w,lhl" lllc Prohibition of the nlclpal map. It Is saJd that he in still H determined to eradicate this evil. |