...defined, by acts of Congress. The judiciary act of September 24, 1789, c. 20, § 17, invests them with "power to punish by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion...authority in any cause or hearing before the same." 1 Stat. 83. By an act of Congress of March 2, 1831, c. 99, 4 Stat. 487, "declaratory of the law concerning...

...of law; (a) and shall have power to impose and administer all necessary oaths or affirmations, and to punish by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion...authority in any cause or hearing before the same; (6) and to make and establish all necessary rules for the orderly conducting of business In the said...

...States — shall have power to administer all necessary oaths or affirmations, and to punish by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of said courts, all contempts of authority in any cause or bearing before the same. Upon the one hand, the contention was that the Federal courts were of limited...

...September 24, 1/89, invested the courts of the United States with "power to punish by fine or imprisonment all contempts of authority, in any cause or hearing before the same." Of this statute the supreme court, in Re Savin, 131 US 274, 9 Sup. Ct. 699, 33 L. Ed. 150, observed:...