United States v. New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.

The questions involved in this case relate to the construction and constitutionality of the Act of December 26, 1920, c. 4, 41 Stat. 1082, entitled “An Act to provide for the treatment in hospital of diseased alien seamen.” It provides: “That alien seamen found on arrival in ports of the United States to be afflicted with any of the disabilities or diseases mentioned in section 35 of ” the Alien Immigration Act of 1917 1 — including any loathsome or dangerous contagious disease — “ shall be placed in a hospital designated by the immigration officials in charge at the port of arrival and…