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Show -22- controversy are not readily satisfied through litigation. The area for sen- sible compromise, not following strictly legal lines, is fairly circumscrib- ed even in the spacious body of legal doctrine which the Supreme Court has before Sub-Committee of Committee on the Judiciary of U. S. Senate, 68 Cong. 1st Sess., on S. 2060 and S. 2061, Feb. 2, 1921+, pp. 27-28, 43-45. The de- sired relief was granted by Congress in the so-called Judges Bill, which be- came law on Feb. 13, 1925 (68 Cong. 2d Sess. Public No. 415). Against this background of the Court's pressure and its capacity ade- quately to dispose of its task, must be projected the enormous drain on the Court's time and energy involved in these intricate interstate boundary dis- putes. Thus the Rhode Island-Massachusetts case was pending in the Court for fourteen years (1832-1846); and appears eight times in the reports. Rhode Island v. Massachusetts, (1833, U. S.) 7 Pet. 651, (1837, U. S.) 11 Pet. 226, (1838, U. S.) 12 Pet, 657, (1838, U. S.) 12 Pet. 755, (1839. U. S.) 13 Pet. 23, (1840, U. S 14 Pet. 210, (1841* U. S.) 15 Pet. 233* (1846 U.S.) 4 How. 591. The Florida-Georgia Case was pending for four years. Florida v. Georgia (1850, U, S,) 11 How. 293* (1854* U. S. ) 17 How. 478. The Alabama- Georgia Case was pending four years. Alabama v. Georgia (1859 U. S. )23 How. 505. The Missouri-Kentucky case was pending for eleven years. Missouri v* Kentucky (1870, U. S. ) 11 Wall. 395* The Missouri-Iowa Case, instituted in 181+8, after one disposition by the Court in 1850, was reopened for final disposition forty years later. Missouri v. Iowa (1849, U. S.) 7 How. 60; (1850, U. 3.) 10 How. 1; (1896) 160 U. S. 688,¦16 Sup. Ct. 433; (1897) 165 U. S. 118, 17 Sup. Ct. 290. The Indiana-Kentucky Case, after a decision in 1890 sustaining the claim of Kentucky* remained on the docket of the Court for six years before final disposition. Indiana v. Kentucky (1890) 136 U. S. 479, 10 Sup. Ct. 1051; (1895) 159 U. S. 275* 16 Sup. Ct. 320; (1897) 167 U. S. 270, 17 Sup. Ct. 999. The Maryland-West Virginia Case, m which the bill was filed in 1891, was not disposed of until 1912. Maryland v. West Virginia (1910) 217 U. S. 1, 577* 30 Sup. Ct. 268, 630; (1912) 225 U. S. 1, 32 Sup. Ct. 672. The Oklahoma-Texas litigation, begun in 1919* is only now being wound up. Scarcely a term of the Court went by without the entry of a decree or an order of some nature. Oklahoma v. Texas (1920) 253 U. S* 1+65, UO Sup. Ct. 580j (1920) 251+ U. S. 280, 603* 609, 615**4 Sup. Ct. 12, 11+6, 317 s (1921) 256 u. s. 70, 602, 1+1 Sup. ct. l£0, 539; (1922) 257 u. s. 308, 609, 611, 616, 621, 1+2 Sup. Ct. 1+6, 1+9* 9k* 167, 187; (1922) 258 U. S. 571+* 606> 1+2 Sup. Ct. 311+, 1+06; (1922) 259 U. S. 565* h2 Sup.Ct. 59U; (1923) 260 U. S, 606, 705, 711* 1+3 Sup. Ct. 166, 221, 251; (1923) 261 U. S. 31*0, 31+5, 606, 1+3 Sup. ct. 36U, 376; (1923) 262 u. s. 505, 72l+* U3 Sup. ct. 701, 70I+5 (1921+) 261+ u. s. 565* 1+U Sup. ct. 1+55; (1921+) 265 U. s. 76, 1+90, 1+93* 500, 505, 513, 573* hh Sup. ct. 1+57, U60, 571* 573, 60I+, 607, 608; (192LO 266 u. s. 298, 303, 5i+6, 583, 1+5 Sup. ct. 101, 122, 195, 198, 355* 356. The Nortli Dakota-Minnesota controversy, in which the bill was filed in 1916, was argued in 1921, restored again to the docket, re-argued in 1923 when a decision was rendered. Worth Dakota v. Minnesota (1923) 263 u- S. 365* 583* I+I+ Sup. Ct. 138, 208. The New Mexico-Colorado controversy, in which the bill was filed in 3,919, was not decided until 1925- Hew Mexico v. Colorado (1925) 266 U. S* 586, 1+5 Sup. Ct. 127* 202, 353- &oe Warren, The Supreme Court an d the Sovereign States (1921+) 87• |