William Howard Taft

“ In 1911 the Postmaster General, being authorized by an Act of March 3, 1891, c. 519, 26 Stat. 830, to arrange for the transportation of mails in American steamships between ports in the United States and foreign ports, submitted to the Attorney General the question whether, as respects mails largely intended for the cities of Colon and Panama, it would be within the letter and spirit of that act to arrange for the carrying of such mails from the ports of New York and San Francisco to the government docks at Cristobal and Balboa in the Canal Zone. ”

“ This recitation of pertinent legislative and administrative action demonstrates that this case is one in which we should apply the rule announced in U.S. v. Alabama Great Southern R. R. Co., 142 U.S. 615, 621, 12 S.C.t. 306, 308, 35 L. Ed. ”