Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-04-26 | Page 11 | Justifies China in Denouncing Treaty

Justifies China in Denouncing Treaty Justice Brewer, in Dissenting Opinion, Opin-ion, Holds That Chinese Are Not Protected in Their Eights. WASHINGTON, April 25. In the Supreme Su-preme Court of the United States today to-day an opinion was delivered in the case of Sing Tuck and thirty-one .other Chinese persons held for deportation on the order of an inspector. The men claimed to be citizens of the United States and sued out writs of habeas corpus, claiming that they were entitled en-titled to a review of their cases by the courts before exhausting the remedies prescribed by the exclusion treaty of 1S91. The court did not take this view, but held that Chinamen must pursue the course outlined ln the law, exhausting the remedies there provided before applying to the courts. The opinion was by Justice I-Iolmes. Justice Brewer rendered a dissenting opinion, In which he characterized the proceedings of the Inspectors as star-chamber star-chamber process, and said that a Chinaman Chi-naman claiming to be a citizen of the United States Is entitled to as much protection as an Anglo-Saxon who makes that claim. Justice Brewer said he did not consider con-sider It strange that China had denounced de-nounced the treaty, and said that with the growing Importance of China that country could bo counted upon to show Increasing resentment against this country. Having sown the wind, he predicted, the United States would reap the whirlwind. Justice Peckham concurred con-curred In the dissenting opinion. The result of the decision Is to sus-tain sus-tain the action of the Inspectors.