[645] La Abra Silver Mining Co. v. United States, 175 U.S. 423 (1899). Here the Court sustained an act of Congress which directed the Attorney General to bring a suit on behalf of the United States against the appellants to determine whether an award made by an international claims commission was obtained by fraud. The Court of Claims was vested with full jurisdiction with appeal to the Supreme Court to hear the case, decide it, to issue all proper decrees therein, and to enforce them by injunction. The Court regarded the money received by the United States from Mexico as property of the United States. This together with the interest of Congress in national honor in dealing with Mexico was sufficient to enable it to authorize a suit for the decision of a question "peculiarly judicial in nature." pp. 458-459.
[646] Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, 244 U.S. 205 (1917).
[647] Taylor v. Carryl, 20 How. 583 (1858).
[648] 1 Wheat. 304 (1816).
[649] 6 Wheat. 264 (1821).
[650] 21 How. 506 (1859).
[651] For a full account of this episode see Warren, Supreme Court in United States History, II, 193-194. See also Baldwin, The American Judiciary, 163.
[652] 6 Pet. 515, 596 (1832). See also Warren, Supreme Court in United States History, II, 213; and Baldwin, op. cit., 164. It was Worcester v. Georgia which allegedly provoked the probably apocryphal comment attributed to President Jackson, "'Well, John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.'" 2 Warren, Ibid. 219.
[653] Mast, Foos & Co. v. Stover Mfg. Co., 177 U.S. 485 (1900).
[654] Covell v. Heyman, 111 U.S. 176 (1884).