...of hire was made. Amendments to the judicial code made in 1917 which sought to preserve to^ suitors the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any state and give to the injured party or to dependents the right to bring action at admiralty or to submit...

...United States." This amendment has been held unconstitutional 4 as a prior amendment 6 of broader scope saving ' ' to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State" had been held unconstitutional at least in its application to seamen, including bargemen,8 as attempting...

...1917, c. 97 ; 40 Stat. 395. The Act amended the Judicial Code relating to admiralty jurisdiction by "saving to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State." An employee of the ice company while engaged in maritime work was drowned. His widow claimed and recovered...

...compensation was not a common law remedy and it added a provision to the "saving clause" reserving "to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State."10 The Supreme Court, however, held that this amendment was an unconstitutional delegation to...

...States Bureau of Statistics, pp. 27-28. 2 Southern Pacific Company vs. Jensen, 244_U/S. 205 (1917). claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any state." This temporarily restored to maritime employees the right to elect compensation in lieu of common law...

...navigable waters, 18 congress attempted to make the compensation laws applicable to such injuries by saving to claimants "the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any state." 19 But the statute so providing was held to be an unconstitutional delegation of power to the states...

...sailors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the Workmen's Compensation Law of any state. The grant of admiralty jurisdiction has uniformly been held to leave open the common-law jurisdiction...

...benefit under the New York Act.2 Thereupon the Judicial Code was amended by adding the clause "and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State," but this extension of the operation of the State Acts was held unconstitutional.2 Where there is a...

...relating to the jurisdiction of the District Court, so as to save to claimants in admiralty causes the rights and remedies under the Workmen's Compensation Law of any state. This act of Congress was declared unconstitutional in Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart, supra, on the...

...States Senate, upon the initiative of Senator Hiram W. Johnson, a bill amending the Judicial Code and saving to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any state. This bill was introduced in the Senate on September 25, 1917, was passed by both houses of Congress,...