Spanish Fork Press | 1910-08-04 | Page 2 | Uncle Sam is Busy at Law

UNCLE SAM IS BUSY AT LAW i Government Has 72 Cases on Supreme Court Docket Many of Which Are Important Tho United States government will figure very largely In the business be the court during fore the Supremo next term Many of tho cases In which Its representatives will appear are ol general public Interest The court has about COO cases on the docket In the first 300 the United States baa 72 At the last term 187 cases were disposed of I Among them are a peonage charge I J coming from Florida the controversy Involving alleged can tempts by Samuel Sam-uel Oompers and boycotts by the Federation Fed-eration of Labor two corporation tai cases touching the application of the I law to real estate holding companies tho reargument of the Standard 011 and the Tobacco trust Issues and cases under the Hepburn railway rate j 1 law In which Is brought up the qites i tlon of the liability of an original carrier car-rier for loss In transit the Press Pub i lishlng company involving alleged libel I li-bel of former President Roosevelt and I tho Hlpollte Egg company the last named being the first to como up to the Supreme court under the pure food I law lawNo time has been set for the rear gument of the general corporation tax cases In which the coustltutlonallly of the law Is at stake The court wants them argued before n full bench I