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Show iLJMo Supreme Court Opens With bareiy a Quorum Present Washington. Oct. 10. Not in yearn had the opcuing day of the supremo court of the I'nited States arrived with barely a quorum of justices ready to go on the bench until today. to-day. The death of Justice Fullor left the court without a permanent head, while the death of Justice Brewer and the Illness of Juatlco .Moody, whose resignation beccnies effective Nov. 30, reduced the active membership to six. ' One noticeable result was the change in the seating arrangement of the Justices. This provides for Justice Jus-tice Harlan, the senior member of the court, to move from the place of h.n-or h.n-or he had occupied tor year. at the light of Justice Fuller, to the chair of the late chief justice himself, in recognition .if hi having ben temporarily tempor-arily the presiding officer of the court. The seats of Ihe other members were changed so that Justice White was assigned to the seat to the right of the presiding Justice and Justice McKenna to the left. Still farther to the right as Justice H.ilnies' chair, while on the other side there were chairs for Justice Day and Lurton. Next to Justice Holmes, was a vacant chair for Justice Moody and the extreme ex-treme right was the scat Mr. Hughes was to use. Although nearly 725 cases are on the docket, the largest number probably In Lhc history of the court at the opening open-ing of a term, the program for tho day was limited because of the uous-ual uous-ual circumstances. Had the president of tho United States been in ihe city, the court would have adjourned t pay Its re-spectB re-spectB to him. This left the day to bo devoted exclusively to the ceremonies cere-monies attending the swearing In of Justice Hughes and those marking the death of Chief Justice Fuller. To morrow the court will begin iu earnest the work of the court. |
