Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1929 — Page 14

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SECRECY MARKS CONFERENCE OF SUPREME COURT Justices Decide Cases in Locked and Guarded Chambers. BY HERBERT MTTI.K t'nitrri Pr Staff t nrrr^pnnrtrni WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Most, .secret of all governmental procedure are the sessions in which the nine black-robed supreme court justices decide their cases in conference, down in a locked and guarded basement room of the capitol. Only once or twice in the court's 140 years has any member told even the methods of these conferences, which have been continued practically without change since the birth of the Republic. Arguments are heard by the court during the week, and the conferences are held on Saturday's, beginning at noon, just when the call for golf is most alluring, according to one justice. In the mornings, the justices examine the cases, the briefs and the records. On the day before a conference each judge receives a. list of the ea.es to be taken up. so that he can “prepare his lesson," and be ready, as Justice Holmes once put it, to “recite" on the eases. Taft Presents Caw* Chief Justice Taft presents eaeh cage, usually stating the facts briefly. together with the points of law involved, and any suggestions he believes appropriate. No cases have been assigned to particular justices in advance, and all must be rCady to discuss each one. The senior associate justice. Holmes, is given first opportunity to speak, and the judges are then canvassed. in order of seniority, down to Harlan Fiske Stone. The discusion is of the freest character, and at the end a vote is taken, the youngest member voting first. These ballots are understood to be secret, each judge keeping a record of his votes under lock and key. On the death of a justice, these records usually are burned. Gets Memorandum ~ In the evening immediately following the conference, each member of the court receives a memorandum from the chief justice advising him of the assignments of cases for writing of opinions. The opinions usually are wrtten during the recess of the court, and after

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CAT FAMILY FEATURE OF CARNEGIE EXHIBIT Portraits of Extinct Types of America Will Be Shown. Bu Science Service WASHINGTON. Dec. 13.—Portraits of the giant cats that once roamed North America are a feature of the annual exhibition of the work of the Carnegie institution of Washington, which opened here today. Fossil finds at various places,

but especially at the famous La Brea tar pits in California, have made possible the collection of an unusually complete senes of skulls, representing all stages from kittenhood to snarling old age. There are two definite types shown in the big-cat group of Ice Age time in America. One is the famous saber-tooth tiger, which used its exaggerated upper eyeteeth for killing its prey and fighting its enemies. The other is a more orthodox cat. a great lion, which has

a skull and tooth arrangement more like those of the present-day lions

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