Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1923, Page 32

PONERVALUATIN * BREF PREPARED Will Be Filed Today. or To- morrow—Argues- Supreme _Court Jurisdiction. ] $3,000000 AT STAKE Utilities Commission App}'aiul of | . Property and Subsequent l Rates at Issue.’ Reasous, why they, belleve the United States Supreme Court has |’ Jurisdiction to pass upon the Potomac Electric ' Power Company valuation case will-he summarized in a brief to be filed by counsel for the Public Utilitles Commission today or tomor- TOW:.o s . The' brief will consist almost en- tirely of citations -from -cases in- volving the three points on: which the Supreme tribunal asked for arguments. Those three points are: . ... Points at Insme. “Whether Congress can vest in this restrictions upon its stitution th v the proceedings of the Public Utllities Commission contemplated by the act creating it. . “Whether. an appeal can be taken to this court until a final judgment has been pronounced in the District Court of Appeals. *“Whether such judgment Is final.” The brief to be filled by Attorney Frank Stephens and Conrad H. Syme for the commission will give a con-| cise history of the se, after which 1t will lisf number of citations on the questions involved. Date for Argument. The court has set February 19 as the date on w it will hear argu- as to Its Jjurisdiction. - | preme Court. he conclusion fter that hearing. ake in this legal battle be- tween the power company and the commlission is *3,000,000. This amount erence between the d 10 cent electric light rates q; the litigation began. Supreme Court upheld AT LUNCHEON TOMORROW! Galllard Hunt of the State Depart- mer.t.1s to lecture tomorrow-at -11:30 a.m, before the Washington Study at the Highlands. This will be the third of the serles of lectures on govern- ment belng given under the ausplces of the. study.. Mr. Hunt wil talk on “The Makers of the Constitution. Miss ‘Mabel Boardman® will act as hostess of the round table luncheon following the lecture. Mr. Hunt will be the guest of honor. There will be twenty-five guests at the luncheon, some “of whom will have wrltten questions addressed to the speaker, answered during the lunch. Representative Frank Mondell, ma- jority floor. leader of the House, will speak on “The Leglslative Branch of Government” on February 21, it was announced . by Miss Marla ' Ewing. Miss Ewing also’ said that it Is the plaf of the Washington Study to an- nounce in the near future acourse of lectures on “History fn Washington.” JAMES A. ROBERTS DIES, VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA . James A. Roberts, for sixteen.years & resident of the District, dled at his home, 540 11th street southeast, this moring after a week's {llness. Death ‘was due to pneumonia. Mr. Roberts, a natlve of Bedford, Va., was thirty-nine years old. For a number of years he was employed at the Giesboro Steel and Ordnance plant. - Surviving him are his wife. Mrs. Lena_ Roberts: a ten-year-old daughter, -Eloise; his father, James W. Roberts of Bedford; three broth- ers and three sisters. His brothers are Dr. Hubert N. Roberts of this city and Thurston E. Roberts and Bruce Roberts of Bedford. The sisters are Mrs. Walter Miller, Mrs. Chester A. Grainger and Mrs. Lula Updike. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. pendent judgment as to both law and facts; second, that the lower court erred in sustaining the commis- slon’s view that the company was not_entitled to have its_property re- produced at the high values exist- ing between July 1, 1914, and Decem- ber, 1916, occasioned by the war. Counsel’'s Contention, Counsel for the commission con- tends that the Court of Appeals was in error in reversing the District Su- ‘This is the condition in which the case now the highest court in the land. glving ‘this outline of the situation, counsel for the commission will say in their brief: ““Thesa are the questions now be- fore this court. It is not expected that this court will goes before examine . | the examination of the facts becomes two grounds, namely: That the low- er court did not use its own inde- necessary to determine the question of law involved, and it is belleved that references made by counsel in the briefs to the pages of the record will greatly simplify this task.” Always Right m Quality and Price 905. 7th Street Phone Main 167 - Tomorrow —and Tomorrow Only - IO 'It 823X EDMONSTON’S—Home of the Original FOOT FORM Boots and Oxfords for Men, Women and Children U;nfinished Drop-Leaf Breakfast Table A convenient table for the kitchen or breakfast room. 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