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Show pone until January a number of cases net for argument today. The boycott and contempt appeals, arising out of the Injunction proceedings proceed-ings in the District of Columbia, brought against the American Federation Feder-ation of Labor by the Hack Stove &. Range company of St. Louis, were reassigned re-assigned for Jan. G. The Kissel case. Involving the question ques-tion whether the American Sugar Refining Re-fining company and others conspired to proent the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company from doing business, busi-ness, was postponed until Nov. 10 on account of illness of counsel The cases involving the constitutionality of the employers' liability law were reassigned for argument cn Nov. 28. Attempts to postpone consideration of the cases Involving the peonage prosecutions from Florida and the Missouri 2-cent ff.re law were unsuccessful. unsuc-cessful. Argument of the former began today. The latter will be heard 1 this week. Motions to advance a large number of cases were submitted to the court. Among these were cases Involving the constitutionality of the "Carmack amendment to the Hepburn rate law" making the Initial carriers responsible responsi-ble for goods throughout the route, and the cases involving the constltu-tlonallty constltu-tlonallty of the bank depesits guarantee guaran-tee laws of Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas S1IPREIE COURT RESETS CASES WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. Because of failure to have a full bench in the supreme court of the I'nited States, a general readjustment of important cases set last spring for consideration considera-tion this autumn was made today by the court. Tho Standard Oil and the tobacco suits under the Shermau anti-trust law were postponed for rehearing ftom Nov. 14 to Jan. 3. The corporation corpor-ation taxe cases were als.i assigned for argument on Jan. 3. So were the cases involving the question ot the correct penalty to be Imposed on violators vio-lators .f the 2S-hour law, regulating the shipment of live stock, and interpretation inter-pretation 01 the national pure food and drug act. It is expected that successors to Chief Justice- Fuller and Justice Moody Moo-dy will have taken their places by that time. The Importance of tbe question In- 1 solved also led the court to post- |