The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-04-15
COASTWISE LAW--WHY 1T
WAS PASSED AND BY WHOM
Attorney General Decides That S. S. Cleveland
Did Not Break 1t and Gives His
Reasons Why.

History by George wekeesham, Attorney
General of United opinion
attorney general recently voyage
steamship Cleveland from York which
The
in full:
Department of Justice Washington February &c. 1910
The the Secretar Commerc and
I acknowledge receipt
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steamship Hamburg landing
passengers party
trip In
course of the cruise the vessel stopped at seventeen being the
the begun, sembar the
"a history the legislation the question
closely related thereto to wit domestic commerce in merchandise WILL think
show the object of his
relating transportation
Domestic section 4s4 the following
No merchandise shall be transported under penalty of forfeiture
thereof from of the United States another the
vessel belonging wholly subject
Kegs (el Fed 41o the circuit court of
appeals for the ninth circuit held that this statute did not include
waded by another vessel California although Cali
fia the objective
February 455),
after the had and
said section by inserting after the word power following
and the transportation of merchandise in such vessel
port port of
States via foreign shall be deemed violation of the foregoing
plying the carrying had been enacted and section of said
act inserted which provided follows:
That foreign vessels found transporting between places
the United States
board in the United States shall be liable dollars
The the insertion of this provision
of committee spbung and spownng interests of the house of
representatives Gong Rec 4sth Cong, 1st sess vol IT, 1909
follows
imposes penalty a transporting
passengers between
which
imposing penalty on foreign vessels for Transporting MERCHANDISE
by the department goods the
construction which has been given there seems to be no penalty
ded for the of between the United
difficulties respect
accustomed during
convey
treasury
penalty provided
up this practise
of by
act of February 1885, al
transport passengers ports
places the United States, either directly
penalty dollars passenger
\ ported landed;
and by section of the the following substi
section 4347,
10,
penalty
of forfeiture thereof States
recty via foreign of the
vessel than a of the
'The object of the legislation contained in both sections
February IT, 1885, fully explained
secretary the chairman
which
Cong I'd Sess, vol 81 1929 3o) which
"section and explicit
provisions of section 4347 the Revised Statutes
the of amendment that section the revisers
incorporate legislation
the Washington of 1871 The validity
aton has for been disputed and avoid legislative
declaration that dispute part of this where
involved the first section Independently though
amends indirectly the other portions of section 4s47
"The essential part of
VOYAGE The question treasury
American goods consigned Alaskan
American vessels distance
miles, Dyea,
distance of about nine hundred miles, St. Michael distance
about two thousand miles The department ruled
which Sutherland
been cruelty sacrificed
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