The United States Supreme Court took the same position as President
Cleveland in a case which grew out of these riots. Mr. Justice
Brewer, in delivering the opinion of the court, said: "We hold that
the government of the United States is one having jurisdiction over
every foot of soil within its territory and acting directly upon
each citizen; that, while it is a government of enumerated powers,
it has within the limits of those powers all the attributes of
sovereignty; that to it is committed power over interstate commerce
and the transmission of the mails, and that these powers have been
assumed and put into practical exercise by the legislation of
Congress."
SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS AND REFERENCES.
1. What have been some of the most important treaties entered into on
the part of the United States?
2. For the treaty made at the close of the Spanish-American War, see
Rev. of R's, 18: 258, 371, 515, 631; 19: 11, 261, 262, 266, 267.
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