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Innovations. At the opening session of the Court, Chief Justice Taft read the original docket, some of the cases on which are 20 years old-the first occasion on which it has been done in years. As usual the docket had grown by some 100 cases. The Court is more than two years behind in its business. The object of reading the docket was to put in force new regulations given to the Court by act of the last Congress, empowering it to decline to hear many cases and thus abbreviate its docket. Among the cases thrown out under this...
...Receive Docket Two Days Ahead...
...business, may I sketch a meeting as held at any time this year? Two days before the date we receive a copy of the docket. At 10.30 we sit around the table, the President at the head. The Treasurer has placed before each of us two sheaves of paper: one, the list of changes of investments in the past two weeks by himself and the two members who compose the Finance Committee. These changes amount usually to several hundred thousand dollars. He has questions to ask about purchase of real estate, about important leases, and" internal problems of finance...
...news of Mr. Ford's activities as banker and investor might have attracted no attention. Railroads, however, are in a class apart, no matter who owns them. Permission to increase railroad capital or debt must be respectfully submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission for its approval. On the docket of that body, therefore, will shortly come up the request of Henry Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. that he be permitted to sell $1,181,000 of the roads's 5% bonds to Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer...
...Authority for the Supreme Court to select and reject cases on its docket for consideration in accordance with their importance, in order to overcome the increasing congestion of the Supreme Court docket; authority for the Supreme Court to make rules improving and reforming the procedure in Federal Courts; appointment of a commission to reform and expedite procedure under the criminal code...