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Show SUPREME COURT WILL NOT MEET ON MONDAY Decisions In a Number of Important Cases Will Be Handed Down at Tuesday's Session. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. By way of observing Washington's birthday the supreme court will hold no session on Monday, but will announce decisions on Tuesday. Justice Lurton, who has been ill since November-haa not recovered sufficiently sufficient-ly at the Florida resort where he wont three weeks ago to resume his seat on tho bench. Because of recent severe weather in Washington he had been advised ad-vised by his physicians to remain in tho south until some time in March. About 110 cases are awaiting decision by the court. The eight justices who will bo on the bench on Tuesday arc expected to announce decisions in prob- ablv a third of these cases, which include in-clude the Gompors contempt ease, the California Oil land case, the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain rate case, tho Shreveport rate case, the eastern states retail lumber dealers' deal-ers' "trust" appeal, the cases involving involv-ing the validity of "Grandfather clauso" legislation in Oklahoma and Maryland; tho Ohio femalo labor law and tho pipe-lino amendment. |