Speech #650131462

In Two hundred and twentythird United States. page 512: While a statute has no extraterritorial force. and one can not be Indicted here for what he does in a foreign country. the miking of a contract i. a foreign country may. as in this case. create a condition operative in this country. under which acts of omission or commission can be punished here. A vessel owner tiking security in a foreign country for the return passage of aliens brought to a port of the United States violates section 19 of the Immigration act of 1907. and the retention of the money in the United States for the return passage is an offense at the place where it is retained. So that. I conclude from the principle laid down in this case. although an association organized under the pending bill should enter into some agreement or perform some act in a foreign country which met the requirements of law there. if at the same time the effect of it were such as to materially interfere with the policy of the United States under its trust laws. then it would be subject to the jurisdiction of the authorities of this country. including both the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.