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Show UPHOLDSDECREE Contract Labor Law Not Intended In-tended to Apply to Sea- men Decided. LEADER COMMENTS Decision Lets Down Bars to Orientals Will Be No Restrictions. i WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 Federal decrees holding that the contract labor la-bor law v.raa not Intended to apply to senmen were today upheld by the supremo su-premo court. Paul Scharrenberg, a San Francisco labor leader, had sued the Dollar Steamship company for penalties for alleged violation- of the act. DECISION WILL LIFT ORIENTAL BAR SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5. Paul Scharrenberg, local labor leader, said that a United States supremo court decision rendered today that the contract con-tract labor law did not apply to seamen sea-men would lift tho bara for 'unhindered 'unhin-dered Importation Into this country 'of Chineso Intended for service on board American ships. He said: "I brought suit against a steamship company on grounds that nineteen Chinese had been brought from China to this country on a British Brit-ish ship for service on American ships. "If the supremo court says that seamen sea-men aro excluded from the provisions of the contract labor law it simply means that there wiU be no restriction placed upon the importation into this country of Chinese for service on American ships. In view of the country's coun-try's call for young Americans to man the nation's ships, the situation Is rather unusual," RAILROAD PRESIDENT MUST ANSWER WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. President Milton H. Smith and other officials of tho Louisville & Nashville railroad, the supreme court decided today, must answer questions asked by the interstate commerce commission regarding re-garding the political activities and campaign contributions of that company. com-pany. KANSAS LAW UPHELD WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. The Kansas Kan-sas corporation tax Jaw requiring foreign for-eign and domestic corporations to pny annual taxes on their capital stocks for the privilege of doing intrastate business was today upheld by the supreme su-preme court. LAND TITLES CLEARED WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. Titles to 43,000 acres of land in the Omaha Indian In-dian reservation, valued. at $3,500,000, are involved in a decision today by the supreme court which reversed federal decisions holding that the treaty of 1865 gave the tribe clear title ti-tle to the land, preventing congress from allotting the same land under an act passed in 1882. |