[27] Act of March 2, 1831, 4 Stat. 487, now 18 U.S.C.A. 401. For a summary of the Peck Impeachment and the background of the act of 1831, see Felix Frankfurter and James Landis, Power of Congress Over Procedure in Criminal Contempts in Inferior Federal Courts—A Study in Separation of Powers, 37 Harvard Law Review, 1010, 1024-1028 (1924).
[28] 19 Wall. 505 (1874).
[29] Ibid. 505, 510-511.
[30] Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 U.S. 418, 450 (1911). See also In re Debs, 158 U.S. 504, 595 (1895).
[31] U.S. 42 (1924).
[32] 38 Stat. 730 (1914).
[33] 266 U.S. 42, 65-66.
[34] 247 U.S. 402 (1918).
[35] Ibid. 418-421.
[36] 263 U.S. 255 (1923). In his dissent in this case, Justice Holmes stated that unless a judge has power to "lay hold of anyone who ventures to publish anything that tends to make him unpopular or to belittle him * * *. A man cannot be summarily laid by the heels because his words may make public feeling more unfavorable in case the judge should be asked to act at some later date, any more than he can for exciting feeling against a judge for what he already has done." Ibid. 281-282.