[1369] Keller _v._ Potomac Electric Power Co., 261 U.S. 428 (1923).

[1370] O'Donoghue _v._ United States, 289 U.S. 516 (1933).

[1371] Embry _v._ Palmer, 107 U.S. 3 (1883).

[1372] James _v._ Dravo Contracting Co., 302 U.S. 134, 143 (1937).

[1373] Battle _v._ United States, 209 U.S. 36 (1908).

[1374] Arlington Hotel Co. _v._ Fant, 278 U.S. 439 (1929).

[1375] James _v._ Dravo Contracting Co, 302 U.S. 134, 143 (1937).

[1376] Collins _v._ Yosemite Park Co., 304 U.S. 518, 530 (1938).

[1377] Ibid. 528.

[1378] Battle _v._ United States, 209 U.S. 36 (1908); Johnson _v._
Yellow Cab Co., 321 U.S. 383 (1944); Bowen _v._ Johnston, 306 U.S. 19
(1939).

[1379] Surplus Trading Co. _v._ Cook, 281 U.S. 647 (1930).

[1380] Western Union Teleg. Co. _v._ Chiles, 214 U.S. 274 (1909);
Arlington Hotel Co. _v._ Fant, 278 U.S. 439 (1929); Pacific Coast Dairy
_v._ Dept. of Agri., 318 U.S. 285 (1943).

[1381] Chicago, R.I. & P.R. Co. _v._ McGlinn, 114 U.S. 542, 545 (1885);
James Stewart & Co. _v._ Sadrakula, 309 U.S. 94 (1940).

[1382] Palmer _v._ Barrett, 162 U.S. 399 (1896).

[1383] United States _v._ Unzeuta, 281 U.S. 138 (1930).

[1384] Benson _v._ United States, 146 U.S. 325, 331 (1892).

[1385] Palmer _v._ Barrett, 162 U.S. 399 (1896).

[1386] S.R.A., Inc. _v._ Minnesota, 327 U.S. 558, 564 (1946).

[1387] Ibid. 570, 571.

[1388] Fort Leavenworth R. Co. _v._ Lowe, 114 U.S. 525, 532 (1885);
United States _v._ Unzeuta, 281 U.S. 138, 142 (1930); Surplus Trading
Co. _v._ Cook, 281 U.S. 647, 652 (1930).

[1389] United States _v._ Cornell, 25 Fed. Cas. No. 14,867 (1819).

[1390] James _v._ Dravo Contracting Co., 302 U.S. 134, 145 (1937).

[1391] Silas Mason Co. _v._ Tax Commission of Washington, 302 U.S. 186
(1937). _See also_ Atkinson _v._ State Tax Commission, 303 U.S. 20
(1938).

[1392] 4 Wheat. 316 (1819).

[1393] Ibid. 420. This decision had been clearly foreshadowed fourteen
years earlier by Marshall's opinion in United States _v._ Fisher, 2 Cr.
358, 396 (1805). Upholding an act which gave priority to claims of the
United States against the estate of a bankrupt he wrote: "The government
is to pay the debt of the Union, and must be authorized to use the means
which appear to itself most eligible to effect that object. It has,
consequently, a right to make remittances, by bills or otherwise, and to
take those precautions which will render the transaction safe."

[1394] _See_ pp. 74-82, _supra_.

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