MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.
This case, except in one particular, presents the same questions considered and determined in Whitney v. Robertson. The exceptional circumstance is this, that the act of 1883, under which the duties were levied and collected, to recover which the action is brought, declares that nothing in it "shall in any way change or impair the force and effect of any treaty between the United States and any other...
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