OCR Text |
Show SUPREME COURT I CASES IMPORTANT Seven Trust Cases Impending; Anthracite Coal Case Starts Today. WASHINGTON". Oct. 7 BooauM of tho announced Intention oi th.- goveninient to push prof cution of antl-truHt rnne hold In abeyance lurinr the war, llio session of the supreme court which be- gan ostet (!ay. is expec ted to proy B ono of tho most important in the history of tho court. Cases pending include those agiln.'t tho alleged anthracite coal trust, trie Vnlted St.Htes Stoul mrporst ion, the Eam: -man Kodak company, the Aisoelated Rillpostors nnd Distributers of tho L'nltod M and Canada, the American Can company, the Quaker Oats company in 1 ;lso the Southern P.iclfic Merger case Following lt usual custom, the court did no business immediately today, Aj - gumi nta In pr ndlnj? cases will begin o-day o-day yylth tin- ol case the first to he heard, Tho etocl case probably will be tho second argue) Others yvll) ho nrirued .n Intervals, but under nn aurecmcnt bc- iween the government end the Quaker Oata company that case yrlll not bo heaid until Junuorj General public Intereat attaches to another an-other case before the court, tht of the i ipht of breweries to continue the manufacture, manu-facture, of been containing 2.76 per cent of alcohol Appeals from lower court decreet rt Baltimore and Ntc Oileans already have been filed A caao of importance to bualnesa Interests In-terests is tho Macombor stock dividend proceedlnga which Involve the conatlti-nonnllt- of the provisions of the 191B Ineome a t taxlnc stock dividends as Income Mthough the supreme court at Us last term upheld the constitutionality of the spionagw .ict, a large number of ap- peall are still pending in oases errowlnc ! out of convictions tinder that law Anions ih.-sc is the case of James Peterson, rai- j dldnte for the Repuhllean nomination m i opposition to Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, Minne-sota, in Pit. nnd rhe yis sentenced re four ' years' Imprisonment because of nowapapcr articles he wrot The appe--t ..j victor Bergeii rapNaentatlveeioel from Wleconaln from conviction undvr the law also Is pending. i.-.mos r. Maher. clerk of court, announces an-nounces that the number of appeols filed this term is 125 less than during the lat term While there is no explanation of Ihls derTeae tr: the number Of nppeati. Mr. Maher said ho believed it was due to the fsn thet lawyer! generally r heeomlnc more in, lined not lo appeal I cAAt- nf oni. mlnoi Importanee. |