Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-05-20
Supreme Court Declares the Geary Act Constitutional.
SOME DISSENTING OPINIONS
Chinese Who Have Not Regis tered will be Summarilly
 DepOrted.

WASHINGTON, D. O., May 15.-The Supreme Court today through Justice Gray sustained ths decision of the New York court in favor of the constitution ality of the Geary Chinese exclusion act, Justice Brewer 6issented.
 The announcement of the decision in the case was expected and attracted a larg5 attendance of spectators axe at torneys including Attorney General Olney, Solicitor General Aidrich, Sena- tor Pugh, Dolph and Cochran. Justice Gray in announcing the judgmSnt of the court said "The power of this nation to restrict or prescribe imm:gra- ton of aliens into this country or re- quIre such aliens already in the country to remove therefrom is well settled principle of Organizational law, con- firmed by an unbrOken line of decisiOns in this court. The legislative power of the government has not transcended any of it's constitutional limitations in the act under consideration.
 Tt was within its power to de ermins the regulations under which these aliens be permitted 10 remain with us or failing to observe these regulations be required to leave the country. The provisions of section six of the act which are the part of the law ! ar ticulsrly at issue are not inconsistent with the relations and duties of the legislative and judicial departmets of the government. The mode of pro cedure under the section is sir liar to other we'll established proceedings such as habsas corpus, naturalization, fixing the requirements of citizenship and tbe like Tn which the judicial branch of he government has-accepted the d--termI sion of the executive upon questions involved"
 As to the requirements of Chinese entitled to remain in this coUn ry should they establish the right by evi- dence of one creditable white wit-esss. Judge Gray say It was within th- power of the legislature to detsrmiDe the character of evidence that might oe received in a ease at law.
 It remains only to say that the judg ment of circuit courts other thar New York in refusing to grant wris' of habeas corpus to petitioners was affirmed. The judge said the opinion in writing would be filed as soon as possible.
 At the conclusion of Justice Grey's opinion Justice Brewer announced he wss mpelled to dissent from the view of the majority cf the court. He read views at some length declaring in subs tance the act of 1892 was uuconstitu tional and that if u held there was no guaranty that similar treatment might not be accorded to other classes of our Dopulatl0n Justice Field who de- lIvered the opinion of the Supreme Court in the first case under the exclu sion act also read a dissenting opinion. He held there was wide difference be- tween the exclusion of immigrants and the deportation of alien residents and characterized the act in the strongest language as iDhuman, brutal and viO- latlon of the Constitution in every sec ton. He regetted to say the decision of the court to his mind was fraught with the gravest danger to constitutional liberty. Chief Justice Fuller also dis scented from the opinion of the court after the court concluded the announce ment of its opinion.