[401] In re Rapier, 143 U. S. no (1892).
[402] To make the record complete it should be added that the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction of all offenses embraced by statute, committed in a postoffice owned by the United States or jurisdiction over which has been ceded by the state. Battle v. U. S., 209 U. S. 36 (1908). But the fact that a train is engaged exclusively in carrying the United States mail does not preclude the jurisdiction of a state court of a prosecution for the murder of an engineer, committed by derailing the train. Crossley v. California, 168 U. S. 640 (1898).
[403] The Roosevelt Policy, vol. ii, p. 486. In his Provincetown address (August 20, 1907) President Roosevelt returned to the same theme, saying: “I believe, furthermore, that the need for action is most pressing as regards those corporations which, because they are common carriers, exercise a quasi-public function; and which can be completely controlled, in all respects, by the federal government by the exercise of the power conferred under the interstate commerce clause, and, if necessary, under the post-road clause of the Constitution.” Ibid., p. 564.
[404] 158 U. S. 564 (1895).
[405] 25 Stat. L. 501.
[406] See 2 Willoughby on the Constitution, 855.
[407] 43d Cong., 1st Sess., Senate Rept. No. 478.
[408] California v. Pacific Railroad Companies, 127 U. S. 1 (1887); U. S. v. Gettysburg Electric Co., 160 U. S. 668 (1896).
[409] 9 Wheat. 738 (1824).
[410] 9 Wheat. 785 (1824).