# Appendix — Glidden Co. v. Zdanok

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## Record

- **Collection:** Supreme Court brief
- **Document type:** Appendix
- **Published:** January 1, 1962
- **Citation:** 370 U.S. 530

## Text

APPENDIX

Excerpt From 68 Cong. Rec. 3181-2 (Feb. 7, 1927),
69th Cong., 2d Sess.:

Mr. Granam. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to
‘nsert in the Recorp a comment upon the question of the
cnstitutionality of this transfer. That question has been
raised under a decision of the Supreme Court January 3,
1927, and these remarks would clearly, I think, establish
the constitutionality of the act.

The Speaker. The gentleman from Pennsylvania asks
manimous consent to extend his remarks in the Recorp
by publishing a statement upon the constitutionality of the
act. Is there objection?

Mr. LaGvarpra. May we have the remarks placed in the
Recorp at this point?

The Speaker. The gentleman from New York asks
unanimous consent that the remarks be placed in the Recorp
at this point. Is there objection?

There was no objection.

The statement is as follows:

Congress exercises the function of creating courts under
several different grants of power. It is expressly given
the power of creating inferior courts to the Supreme Court
of the United States in the administration of Federal
justice under the grant of Article III of the Constitution.
These courts exercise jurisdiction within the borders of
each State in all cases described in the third article as
judicial power extended by that article to the United States.
Congress may create courts to exercise complete juris-
diction over the District of Columbia, as given it by reason
of the exclusive governmental jurisdiction that it has over
the District vested expressly by the Constitution. Congress
may in the same way create courts to exercise complete
and exclusive judicial jurisdiction over the Territories of
the United States under that provision of the Constitution
vhich gives Congress the right to impose needful regula-
tions over the territory and property of the United States.
This latter power is also said by Chief Justice Marshall
and others to grow out of the power of the United States

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as a sovereign to govern the territory which it owns, not
in the States. In the same way it may be properly said
that were there no third article to the Constitution, the
United States as a sovereign Government could create
courts to decide cases arising between the Government
and such individuals in reference to its own taxes, its own
grants, and in reference to its own debts. In other words,
I conceive that without the special grant of power under
the third article of the Constitution Congress could exer.
cise the power of a sovereign, create a court of claims to
pass on the debts which the United States may owe to
individuals, on grants of lands which it may have granted
to individuals, to grants of patent rights which it may have
granted.to individuals, and the construction and decision
of cases arising under the customs or internal revenue
laws affecting the payment of the revenue which a sovereign
must collect in order that it may live. With reference to
these latter courts, it may be said that the same rigid rule
would not be applied to the functions which Congress may
give to.them as to whether they shall be purely judicial
or not, as has been applied in respect to courts that exer-
cise a Federal jurisdiction under the third article of the
judicial power of the United States, as distinguished from
the general administration of justice by the States within
State borders, which could not exist but for the third
article. In this way the Court of Claims, the Court of
Customs Appeals, and a court of patents may be easily
distinguished from the Supreme Court and its subordinate
courts under the third article in respect to limitation to
strictly-judicial functions. ,

The Supreme Court and the subordinate courts of the
United States, exercising jurisdiction within the several
States of the Union, all deal with cases and controversies
in the sense of the third article of the Constitution, but
as to courts which are not concerned with the exercise of
judicial power within or affecting the several States, there
is reason to believe that they stand on a different plane,
and that as they are brought into being and exist in virtue
of the sovereignty of the United States, and of its power
to do all that is essential to the effective exercise of a gov-
ernment, such as aiding in the enforcement of the taxation

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laws, aiding in the administration and enforcement of the
public land laws and the Indian laws, and in the ascertain-
ment and determination of claims against the United States
and the administration of the laws relating to the granting
of patents, copyrights, and trade-marks, they may be in-
vested with jurisdiction and powers which lie ontside of
and beyond the controversies and cases which are com-
prehended by the third article of tne Constitution. Il-
lustrations of this will be found in the court of private-land
daims, which for many years ascertained and reported
the facts respecting conflicting claims to lands, jurisdiction
over which was ceded to the United States by Mexico, to
the special Indian court, which dealt ~vithelaims to citizen-
ship of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory
when Congress was preparing that region for admission
to the Union as a State, to the Court of Claims, and
especially its power and authority to examine and report
on claims, at the instance of either House of Congress or
at the instance of any of the executive departments of the
Government. In Gordon v. United States (117 U.S., Ap-
pendix 697, 699), Chief Justice Taney said:

“So far as the Court of Claims is concerned, we see no
objection to the provisions of this law. Congress may un-
doubtedly establish tribunals with special powers to ex-
amine testimony and decide, in the first instance, upon the
validity and justice of any claim for money against the
United States, subject to the supervision and control of
Congress or a head of any of the executive departments.”

And while in that and other cases it is held that where
the action of such a tribunal is intended to be advisory
mly, and in aid of legislative or administrative action,
there can be no review by the Supreme Court, the cases
all recognize that Congress, consistently with the Consti-
tution, may establish special tribunals and clothe them with
power to ascertain and decide facts and report them as a
basis for legislative or administrative action, without
putting them in the form of a controlling judicial judgment.

The case of the Postum Cereal Co. v. California Fig-
Nuts Co., decided January 3, 1927, following the case of
Keller v. The Potomac Electric Power Co. (261 U.S. 428),

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which in turn followed the case of Baldwin v. Howard
(256 U.S. 35), and Muskrat v. United States (219 US.
346), were cases in which the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court of the United States was in question, and it was
held that its power and jurisdiction as a court was limited
to judicial cases and controversies and could not extend
to mere decisions as by a commission or special tribunal
created for the purpose of aiding governmental functions,
whether legislative or administrative. But these ¢
would not apply to a Court of Customs and Patent Appe
to whose jurisdiction Congress may properly add the duties
of an administrative tribunal for governmental purposes,

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- Constitutional provisions and statutes involved-_---------
> Statement.._.---.-----------------------------------
Summary of argument--------------------------------
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I. Judge Jackson was at least a de facto judge, whose
authority petitioner, as a defendant in @
criminal trial, lacked standing to challenge—

in any event for the first time on appeal. -----

II. Even assuming the “legislative” character of the
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Con-

gress had power under the District of Columbia

clause of the Constitution to authorize the

judges of that court (including retired judges)

to serve on the superior courts of the District - -

III. Judge Jackson is, and at least since 1958 has been,
an Article III judge, fully competent to sit on

the District Court for the District of Columbia

or any other Article III court to which he may

_ be assigned pursuant to statutory authority -- -

. IV. The Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was
validly created by Congregs as, and has always

been, an Article III court_------------------

_. A. Congress, by the Act of August 25, 1958,
declared the Court of Customs and

Patent Appeals to be a court which had

been established under Article ITI.----

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Argument—Continued Pep
IV. The Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was
validly created by Congress as, and has always
been, an Article III court—Continued
B. The Court of Customs and Patent
Appeals was in fact created by Congress

as an Article IIT court__..___________ 60
1. The court’s history shows that
Congress established it pursuant

to Arteole TM. 2.25 - cc. 6)
(a) The creation and history

of the court__________ 61

(6) The congressional pur-
pose to establish the
court as an Article IIT

2. The decision in Ez parte Bakelite
Corporation, 279 U.S. 438,
should be reexamined and held
no longer effective____________ 85

C. There is no constitutional obstacle to the
conclusion that the Court of Customs
and Patent Appeals was validly estab-
lished by Congress under Article III__ 96

1. The customs jurisdiction of the
court has always been purely
judicial in character, involving
cases arising under the Consti-
tution, laws, and treaties of the
United States, and controversies
to which the United States is a

(6) “Arising under this Con-
stitution, the Laws of
the United States, and

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(c) “Controversies to which

the United States shall

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2. The subsequent vesting in the
court of jurisdiction over other —
matters did not affect its Article
Fann ee, See ra 102

Argument—Continued men

V. If the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was ;
not an Article III court before 1958, the Act

of August 25, 1958, made it one_--.--------- 114
PentettO. ... 2... 2 cg pon nat cdeccesedsentseesesseesess 117
Appendix A: Constitutional provisions and statutes in-

ee. SD... accndanenedtwanusdaranetdekshode@hws 118

Appendix B: Creation and History of the United States
Customs Court (formerly the Board of General Apprais-

SS re eer rr ere 131
CITATIONS
Cases :
Altman & Co. v. United States, 224 U.S. 583_..------ 70
American Construction Co. v. Jacksonville Railway, 148
Be Sic acac candies ata ees ween camassntondan 38
American Insurance Co. v. Canter, 1 Pet. 511_-.------ 51
American Sugar Refining Co. v. United Staies, 181 U.S.
Gs wat eesandccanccennchipda sue iedestdb hans 70

Amtorg Corp., In re, 22 C.C.P.A. 558, 75 F. 2d 826... 103
Anglo-California Bank v. United States, 175 U.S. 37-- 70

Answer of the Justices, 122 Mass. 600_----.------.--- 33
Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers v. United States, 286 U.S.

OF ccvccdcassmeebadin Mandasatnatabddionsense™ 41
Atlantic Transport Co. v. United States, 5 Ct. Cust.

BE, TIE cnncnnnbanndndnnsssdenweth= ntiucew sna 133
Attorney General v. Megin, 63 N.H. 378_.-.--------- 31
Auffmordt v. Hedden, 137 U.S. 310_-.-.------------ 93
Ayrshire Collieries Corp. v. United States, 331 U.S. 132. 36, 38
Bakelite Corporation, Ex parte, 279 U.S. 438_..-.---- 17,

18, 19, 25, 41, 43, 46, 52, 53, 59, 61, 66, 67, 75, 77,
84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 102, 103,
112, 114, 134.

Baker v. State, 80 Wis. 416... ....--------.-.----.. 31
Ball v. United States, 140 U.S. 118___..--.---- 7, 28, 29, 34
BaGen v7. Biats, GB Taste 190 4. wnvndcndoncs-cccduca 32
Barr v. United States, 324 U.S, 83_-.-.-....-------- 76
Bird v. State, 154 Miss. 493__....----------..----- 32
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois v. United

ES ge Rea 76
Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497..--.-.--------.---- 41
Boomhower, Inc. v. American Automobile Insurance

Co., 220 F. 2d 488, certiorari denied, 350 U.S. 833-- 45

Cases—Continued

Booth v. United States, 291 US. 339----------------
Brown v. Lunt, 37 Me. 423-.----------------------
Buckler v. Bowen, 198 Md. 357. -------------------
Butterworth v. Hoe, 112 US. 50.. ---------------- 39, 105
Byer v. Harris, 77 N.J.L. 304---------------------- :
Gatien +. Wises, 127 USB. $40. ......-.--------%3
Capital Traction Company v. Hof, 174 8.4. 5. can
Clark v. Commonwealth, 29 Pa. St. 129_.------------
Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264------------------
Commonwealth v. Di Stasio, 297 Mass. 347, certiorari

denied, 302 U.S. 683------------------------ 29, 30, 31
Crawford v. Howard, 9 Ga. 314-------------------- 31
Cromer v. Boinest, 27 S.C. 436--------------------- 3]
Donegan v. Dyson, 269 US. 49- ---------------- 28, 45, 50
Downs v. United States, 187 U.S. 496--------------- 70
Faber v. United States, 221 U.S. 649_----.---------- 70
Far East Conference v. United States, 342 U.S. 570---- 93
Fassett, In re, 142 US. 479------------------------ 93
Federal Radio Commission v. General Electric Co., 281.

U.S. 464: :-2. tel i ol slo ee ees 39, 40, 109, 111
Federal Radio Commission v. Nelson Bros. Co., 289

US. pie ete SS) ee) ae 109
Five Per Cent. Discount Cases, 243 U.S. 97---------- 76

Florida ex rel. Attorney General v. Gleason, 12 Fla. 190,
writ of error dismissed sub nom. Gleason v. Wlovida, ,
Q@ Wall. 779__-.------------------------------- 31
Prd Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U.S. 698-.------- 92, 93

Frdd-. Raly, OVUBM19_ 22222 36, 37, 38
Franklin Sugar Co. v. United States, 202 U.S. 580---- 70
Frischer & Co., In re, 16 Ct. Cust. App. 191---------- 66,
81, 82, 87, 88, 97, 103
Frischer cb Co. v. United States, 17 C.C.P.A. 494_.--.- 18
Garea v. State, 120 Tex. Crim. Rep. 147---~---------. 32
Goat and Sheepskin Co. v. United States, 206 U.S. 194. 70
Gordon v. United States, 117 U.S. 697..------------- 7; @
Gorman v. People, 17 Colo. 596 ----.--------------- ;
Greenwood v. State, 116 Ind. 485- --------------- petty
Grisar v. McDowell, 6 Wall. 363. - - ----------- Bo
Hallowell v. Commons, 210 Fed. 793----.-----------
Hampton & Co. v. United States, 276 U.S. 394-------

Hansen v. United States, 1 Ct. Cust. App. 1---------

Vv

Harmon v. Brucker, 355 U.S. 579- ----------------- 3
Hayburn’s Case, 2 Dall. 409. ----------------- 97, 102, 113
Hoeninghaus v. United States, 172 U.S. 622__.------- 69
Hoover Company v. Coe, 325 U.S. 79...------- 106, 198, 113
Humel v. Hoogendorn, 5 Alaska 25 - - --------------- 30

Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154
TE ea eek inane dguidGesesiuns 97
Jeffords v. Hine, 2 Ariz. 162.....------------------ 31, 33
Johnson v. Manhattan Ry. Co., 61 F. 2d 934--------- 28
Johnson Co. v. United States, 13 Ct. Cust. App. 373.. 134
Kansas v. United States, 204 U.S. 331-------------- 100
Keller v. Potomac Electric Co., 261 U.S. 428--------- 11,
39, 40, 48, 98, 109
Lacy v. Barrett, 75 Mo. 469. - .-------------------- 32
Lamar v. United States, 241 U.S. 103--.------------ 32
Lawder v. Stone, 187 U.S. 281--------------------- 70
Leary v. United States, 268 F. 2d 623...------------ 28
Lewis & Conger v. United States, 13 Ct. Cust. App. 22. 133
_ Lillie v. Trentman, 130 Ind. 16_.--.---------------- 32
Lockerty v. Phillips, 319 U.S. 182-..--------------- 95
Logan v. Harris, 213 Ark. 37. --------------------- o—
Lurk v. United States, 366 U.S. 712..-.------------- 3
Manning, In re, 139 U.S. 504...------------------- . 85
Mareellus v. Wright, 61 Mont. 274- ---------------- 31
Marine v. Lyon, 65 Féd. 992.._...---------------- 133
Maritime Board v. Isbrandtsen, 356 U.S. 481-...----- 93

Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Assoc., Inc. v.
United States, 362 U.S. 458...----.-------------- 93
May v. City of Laramie, 58 Wyo. 240...--.--------- 31
McAllister v. United States, 141 U.S. 174-.-.-------- 81
' McCraw v. Williams, 74 Va. 510...---------------- 31
McDowell v. United States, 159 U.S. 596. ..-.----- 6, 28, 29
McGrath v. Kristensen, 340 U.S. 162....----------- - 106
McGregor v. Balch, 14 Vt. 428. -------------------- 31, 33
Minnesota v. Hitchcock, 185 U.S. 373 ...------------ 100
Moreno Rios v. United States, 256 F. 2d 68---.------ 32
Morgan v. State, 66 Okla. Crim. Rep. 205--..------- 30, 33

Murray’s Lessee v. Hoboken Land and Improvement
Co., 18 How. 272... .-..-..-------------- 90, 91, 93, 97
Muskrat v. United States, 219 U.S. 346_.....-.---.--- 97

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Cases—Continued Pag
National Mutual Insurance Co. v. Tidewater Transfer
Co., , 337 th Hen a ncenncbsnsbbeneitsl sue 18,
20, 43, 51, 94, 99, 102, 111, 112
Newman v. Frizzell, 238 U.S. 537__-...------------ 34
Nicholas & Co. v. United States, 249 U.S. 34___.___-- 76
Nishimura Ekiu v. United States, 142 U.S. 651_.__-_-- 93
Northern Pigment Co., In re, 22 C.C.P.A. 166, 71 F

a a ee ae. > {Td BEE TI} NBS BOR. Te 103

Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425___...--_--_-- 29, 35
’ Norwegian Nitrogen Co. v. United States, 288 U.S. 294. 76
O’ Donoghue v. United States, 289 U.S. 516___.------- ll,
23, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 53, 76, 83, 85, 913, 109, 110, 112
Orion Co., In re, 22 C.C.P.A. 149, 71 F. 2d 458____-- 103
Orme v. Commonwealth, 21 Ky. L. Rep. 1412__-____-- 30, 31
Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 9 Wheat. 738_... 97
Passavant v. United States, 148 U.S. 214_....----.--- 93
People v. Sassovich, 29 Cal. 480_......-..---------- 30
People v. Townsend, 214 Mich. 267....-...--------- 30
People ex rel. Ballou v. Bangs, 24 Ill. 184_.-._-__.--- 30, 33
Povaene.¢. Bae, 307 US. GR6-. oon 5 cis 106
Pope v. United States, 323 U.S. 1__------ 20, 46, 53, 100, 103
Postmaster-General v. Early, 12 Wheat. 136....._---- “4
Postum Cereal Co. v. California Fig Nut Co., 272 US.

___, Me oe 22, 39, 49, 78, 98, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109
Principality of Monaco v. Mississippi, 292 U.S. 313_. = 101
Pringle v. State, 108 Miss. 802_.........-.--------- 30, 31
Prosser v. United States, 1 Ct. Cust..App. 550_...---- 72
Ridout v. State, 161 Tenn. 248_........----..-----. 31, 33
Hises t. Pea, 4 AM MB, fon cn tcitdee as cei cs RES 32
Rogers v. Beauchamp, 102 Ind. 33_....------------- 30
Salyer v. Napier, 21 Ky. L. Rep. 172_---...-------- 32
Sanborn v. United States, 27 C. Cls. 485, vaniiheane

to permit appeal denied, Jn re Sanborn, 148 US.

TD ccc auticansmcscdinkabd th Jginh sisi 113
Schlungger v. State, 113 Ind. 295_-.._------ Cokes 32
Shoemaker v. United States, 147 U.S. 282.__-.:---.- 49, 116
Shurtleff v. United States, 189 U.S. 311..--..-------- 132
Snow v. State, 134 Tex. Crim. App. 263_..--..---.-- 31, 33
Spradling & Thomas v. State, 17 Ala. 440_..-_------ 30, 33
State v.-Blancett, 24 N. Mex. 433__......----------- 30, 32
State v. Britton, 27 Wash. 2d 336_.......----------- 31
State v. Brown, 12 Minn. 538_......-..---.-------- 30
State v. Carroll, 38 Conn. 449.............--.------ 30

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Cases—Continued Page
State v. Carter; 49 W. Va. 700. ...:-..2-.--- 22-2. 31
State v. Harden, 177 N.C. 580_______ ee De tts 30, 32
State v. Holmes, 12 Wash. 169____________________. 32
ee T. Be WB TRE, Goo noc co pwdnnancukidcavak 31
State v. Malcom, 39 Ida. 185________.-___..______- 30
State v. Miller, 71 Kan. 401_...........2.:...-.... 30
Gaal ¥. Bieeer, 194 Mie, BOR oso cccneth cvccaiai/e nace 32
SR es I IP INS, Acs cad atin eich in ce csc ges 31
State v. Rich, 20 Mo. 393___..-_______- Citicdiaie 30, 33
State v. Sadler, 51 La. Ann. Rep. 1397_____..._____- 30, 33
State v. Schuermann, 146 La. 110_.__._____________- 32
State v. Williams, 61 Kan. 739__....____._________- 33
State of Florida v. Gleason, 12 Fla. 190:._._________- 33
State ex rel. Bockmeier v. Ely, 16 N.D. 569__-_______- 33
State ex rel. James v. Deakyne, 44 Del. 217__--...___- 31
State ex rel. Madden v. Crawford, 207 Ore. 76_.__----- 31
Stiess v. State, 103 Ohio St. 33_........_........__- 30, 33
Stone v. Whitridge, White & Co., 129 Fed. 33, reversed
sub nom. United States v. Whitridge, 197 U.S.135_.-. 133
Strahl, Ex parte, 16 Ia. 360_.......2..-...........- 31, 33
_ Sylvia Lake Co. v. Northern Ore Co., 242 N.Y. 144,
certiorari denied, 273 U.S. 695____._______________ 29, 30, 33
Territory v. Mattoon, 21 Haw. 672___..-._.________- 30
Tucker v. Myers’ Estate, 151 Neb. 359______________ 30
Tutun v. United States, 270 U.S. 568-..__.-.-_-___- 97
United States v. Aetna Explosires Co., 256 U.S. 402_-_- 76
United States v. American-Foreign Steamship Corp.,
Oe Bie sds Dh caw dile he eos cece nns 7, 34, 35, 37
United States v. American Sugar Refining Co., 202 U.S.
hice anccipepa tains bicpicinteebiotaknestdidies dasa Nei gee ot 70
United States v. Ballin, 144 U.S. 1_.___.--.__-_- shes 69
United States v. Burr, 159 U.S. 78....--..----__-__- 69
United States v. Bush & Co., 310 U.S. 371__-__---_-- 76
United States v. Claflin, 97 U.S. 546___._....______- 114
United States v. Duell, 172 U.S. 576—_.-- 22, 45, 50, 105, 106
United States v. Ferreira, 13 How. 40___..-.__-- 97, 102, 113
United States v. Fish, 268 U.S. 607___._.________.__ 76
United States v. G. Falk & Brother, 204 U.S. 143____- 70
United States v. Jahn, 155 U.S. 109_______________. 69
United States v. Kurtz, 5 Ct. Cust. App. 144________- 133
United States v. Lies, 170 U.S. 628____...___._.___. 69
United States v. Macy & Co., 13 Ct. Cust. App. 245... 134

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