Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States, 148 U.S. 312 (March 27, 1893).
26. Act of May 5, 1892 (27 Stat. 25, ch. 60, sec. 4).
Provision of a Chinese exclusion act, that Chinese persons "convicted and adjudged to be not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a period not exceeding 1 year and thereafter removed from the United States * * *" (such conviction and judgment being had before a justice, judge, or commissioner upon a summary hearing), held to contravene the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.
Wong Wing v. United States, 163 U.S. 228 (May 18, 1896).
27. Joint Resolution of August 4, 1894 (28 Stat. 1018, No. 41).
Provision authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to approve a second lease of certain land by an Indian chief in Minnesota (granted to lessor's ancestor by art. 9 of a treaty with the Chippewa Indians), held an interference with judicial interpretation of treaties under article III, section 2, clause 1 (and repugnant to the Fifth Amendment).
Jones v. Meehan, 175 U.S. 1 (October 30, 1899).
28. Act of August 27, 1894 (28 Stat. 553-560, secs. 27-37).
Income tax provisions of the tariff act of 1894. "The tax imposed by sections 27 and 37, inclusive * * * so far as it falls on the income of real estate and of personal property, being a direct tax within the meaning of the Constitution, and, therefore, unconstitutional and void because not apportioned according to representation [art. I, sec. 2, clause 3], all those sections, constituting one entire scheme of taxation, are necessarily invalid" (158 U.S. 601, 637).
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429 (April 8, 1895) and rehearing, 158 U.S. 601 (May 20, 1895).