The effect of this carelessness in the issuance of certificates has been to fill the Federal courts upon our coast with habeas corpus cases to the exclusion of all other and more important business. Judge Hoffinan. cited by the gentleman from Massachusetts with so much unction. rendering thddecision of the court in a case on which lie sat in bane with Judges Sawyer and Sabin. January 19. 1884. said: We also think it proper to avail ourselves of this occasion. as this opinion may possibly attract some lmblie attention. to say that if the Chinese immigrants come in the future in anythinglike the number in which they have recently arrived it will be impossible for the courts to fullill their ordinary functions if these habeas corpus cases are to be investigated and disposed of. There teulains on the calendar of the district court. I ant informed. one hundred and ninety cases.
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