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Show POLL TAX CASE 15 !l SOONM HO,! Supreme Court Will Listen j to Arguments During the Ensuing Term. I g -i Argument for and against the poll tax jj law of Utah, will be heard by the su- ji preme court on October 2G. The case is - s one that is of special interest to every j S male citizen of the state, between the a nges of 21 and 50 years, who is not j 5 exempt by law from the payment of this j jj i' tax. The case arose out of the refusal j 5 of Jl. E. Wilson, a local attorney, to I 'i l.av hia poll tax for the vear 1914. The i license collector was authorized to brin a suit for the collection of the tax. By . 3 .-onsent the case was transferred from : $ the city court, in which it was first filed, i i to the district court. Mr. Wilson con- . 3 tended that the law was unconstitutional B in that it did not apply to all voters in g the state and that it was unlawful to, lew such a tax. Mr. Wilson argued that : women had the same votine privilege, i in Utah as men have and that on the '. jj ground of equal rights a man had no ! g more right to pay poll tax than had a ' B woman citizen. Judge E. C. Loofbourow : B decided in favor of Mr. Wilson and the B city appealed the case to the supreme R court. g The October calendar of the court is B the longest since statehood. In addition y to a large number of ordinary civil gj oases, thirteen state cases are scheduled. ! For the first time in several terms there B is not an appeal murder case on the K calendar. a |