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The Watchman And Southron
Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina
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The U.S. Supreme Court prepares for a busy first session of 1913 on January 6 in Washington, with over 100 cases possibly decided, including Union Pacific stockholders' rights, state rate cases, cotton corner, and newspaper publicity. Oral arguments include 24 cases, such as the white slave traffic act's constitutionality in the Johnson case and Charles R. Heike's immunity claim.
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FIRST DAY WILL BE BUSY SESSION.
List of Cases to be Decided at Session Includes Some of Wide Interest.
Washington, Jan. 5.--The supreme court has set out for hard work during the year by piling up record-breaking amount for tomorrow, the first day's session in 1913.
Many of the cases under advisement--more than 100 of them--probably will be decided.
Chief Justice White may announce the decision in regard to the rights of Union Pacific stockholders in the distribution of the Southern Pacific stock now held by the Union Pacific Railroad company in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.
Among other cases decided may be the State rate cases, the "cotton corner" case and the "newspaper publicity" case.
In addition to decisions, the court has set for oral argument tomorrow 24 cases that may require two weeks for completion.
Among the first to be heard will be a group testing the constitutionality of the federal "white slave traffic act." One is the Johnson case from Chicago, in which the negro pugilist is charged with transporting a woman from Pittsburg to Chicago.
Another that will mark the end of the spectacular fight of Charles R. Heike, former secretary of the American Sugar Refining company, to avoid an imprisonment sentence for alleged conspiracy to defraud the government in customs sugar weighing. He claims immunity from prosecution by reason of having testified at an anti-trust investigation by a federal grand jury.
Other cases to be argued immediately are those involving the title of the Southern Pacific railroad of large areas of oil land on the California and the extension of the corporation tax to companies which have leased all their property to others, such as railroad and telegraph companies.
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Washington
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January 6, 1913
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The Supreme Court session on the first day in 1913 will feature decisions on over 100 cases under advisement, including Union Pacific stockholders' rights regarding Southern Pacific stock, state rate cases, cotton corner case, and newspaper publicity case. Oral arguments for 24 cases, including constitutionality of the federal white slave traffic act in the Johnson case from Chicago involving transporting a woman from Pittsburgh to Chicago, Charles R. Heike's immunity claim from imprisonment for conspiracy in sugar weighing, Southern Pacific's oil land titles in California, and extension of corporation tax to leasing companies.