United States v. Cook

HamiltoN, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

The information in this case sets up that the defendant on February 25, 1914, landed, without bond, in Guanica harbor, from the English steamer Norhilda, certain four Chinese seamen, who were laborers, without any reason of necessity. To this information a demurrer is interposed by the defendant. The proceeding is brought under the act of September 13, 1888.

1. The United States in 1858 made a treaty -of peace and friendship with China, and in 1868 certain supplementary articles were added. There arose friction relative to the coming of Chinese…