Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — U.S.SUPREME COURT. [ARTICLE]

U.S.SUPREME COURT.

The Myra Clark Gaines case, which has been in the courts since 1834. was decided by the United States Supreme Court, Tuesday. The court awarded the executors of the will the sum of 1576.000 against the city of New Orleans for the use of property sold by the city, but recovered by Mrs. Gaines after long litigation. The judgment of the lower court awarding the executors >1,300,000 for the use of the unimproved property sold by the city was not concurred in.. An other important decision was in affirming the power of Congress to exclude objectionable aliens from the country in the suit of Chae Chang Ping; appellant, vs. the Collector of the Port of San Francisco. It was a suit to test the constitutionality of the ScottChinese exclusion act. Shortly after the Scott exclusion act went into effect Chae Chang Ping returned to the United States from China and endeavored to secure entrance at the Port of San Francisco. He had left this country armed with a certificate entitling him to return, but the certificate was declared invalid by the Scott act The Collector refused him admittance and suit was then brought in the United States Court for the District of California to test the constitutionality of the Scott act, in accordance with the provisions of which the collector acted. The California court upheld the constitutionality of the act; and from this decision the case came up on appeal. The court affirms that judgment. It holds that Congress has the power to abrogate a treaty, and in support of that view cites the authorities of the courts, holding that the propriety of such action is not a matter for judicial cognizance, but that it is a matter for the political department. Congress, it says, has powerto exclude aliens from the country whose presence is deemed inimical to our interests.