By §§ 751 and 753 of the Kevised Statutes the courts of the. United States have power to issue writs of habeas corpus which shall extend to prisoners in jail when they are in “ custody in violation of the Constitution or a law or treaty of the United States,” and the question we have to consider is, whether these prisoners are held in violation of the provisions of the existing treaty between th…
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