The Federal Reporter: With Key-Number Annotations ..., volume 43
The Federal Reporter: With Key-Number Annotations ..., volume 43
United States. Circuit Courts, United States. District Courts, District of Columbia. Court of Appeals, United States. Circuit Court of Appeals, United States. Commerce Court
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Can there be any reason assigned why the legislation of a civilized na- tion should limit the punishment for such practices to the case of the vessels of her own citizens, and leave those of foreign nations, which come here in pursuance of treaties of amity and commerce, to take care of themselves, — with the marline-spike, it may be? Every commercial nation is directly interested in maintaining peace and order on its navigable waters, and affording reasonable protection to foreign vessels enga...ged in commerce thereon. The comity of nations requires that each one shall provide means for the arrest and punishment of all persons guilty of such depredations on commerce within its waters; and I have no doubt that such was the intention of congress in the en- actment of section 4606. Its language, "any vessel," includes both for- eign and domestic ones; and there is nothing in the context or the sub- ject-matter to warrant its limitation to the latter, but the contrary. Since I commenced the examination of these cases, my attention has been attracted to the case of U.
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