prepared and made available to public inspection by the commissioner. It is the duty of the Commissioner, under the provisions of § 257 (b) of the Revenue Act of 1924, to prepare and make available for public inspection in each collection district, lists containing the name of each person making an income tax return and the amount of tax paid by him; and therefore the publication made by the defendant was not a printing or publishing of a part of an income return in a manner not provided by law in violation of Rev. Stats. § 3167. If § 3167, interpreted in connection with § 257, forbids the printing in a newspaper of the name of the taxpayer and the amount of tax paid, contained in the lists open to public inspection, then to that extent § 3167 is unconstitutional, since it abridges the freedom of the press protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court. This case comes here from a judgment of the lower court dismissing the indictment, 2 Fed. (2d) 761, and is the same in all respects as No. 768, United States v. Dickey et al., just decided, ante, p. 378. Upon that authority the judgment below is Affirmed. MR. JUSTICE STONE took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. 268 U.S. Argument for Appellants. UNITED STATES EX REL. RUTZ v. LEVY, U. S. MARSHAL. UNITED STATES EX REL. FAUNTLEROY v. LEVY, U. S. MARSHAL. UNITED STATES EX REL. STENECK v. LEVY, U. S. MARSHAL. UNITED STATES EX REL. WANNER v. LEVY, U. S. MARSHAL. APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Nos. 935, 936, 937, 938. Submitted April 13, 1925.-Decided May 25, 1925. An order made by a United States Commissioner, after hearing, in a removal proceeding (R. S. 1014), discharging the defendant for want of probable cause, may be persuasive but it is not controlling upon a like application made later in the same district to the District Judge. P. 393. 3 Fed. (2d) 816, affirmed. APPEALS from judgments of the District Court quashing writs of habeas corpus. Messrs. Herbert Pope, Frank E. Harkness and Benjamin M. Price, for appellants. Morse v. United States, 267 U. S. 80 decided only that a discharge in removal proceedings did not preclude an arrest in the jurisdiction where the indictment was returned and a trial on the indictment, and expressly recognized that the effect of such a discharge in subsequent removal proceedings presented a different question. The passing remark in United States v. Haas, 167 Fed. 211, to the effect that "the decision of a committing magistrate refusing to hold a prisoner for trial or removal is not res adjudicata" was not necessary to the de 390 Argument for Appellants. cision and is entitled to little weight. The report shows that counsel for the defense admitted that a decision of a committing magistrate in removal proceedings was not "technically res adjudicata" and therefore the question. was not in controversy. Moreover, the authorities cited in the opinion have nothing to do with removal proceedings, but deal only with preliminary examinations before committing magistrates where the question was whether an accused should be held for a crime committed in the jurisdiction where the arrest took place. The court appears to have jumped to the conclusion that because a decision in such a proceeding was not res judicata, a decision of an examining magistrate in a removal proceeding could not be res judicata. But the distinction between the two proceedings is fundamental. This court has often held that in the class of cases first mentioned the preliminary hearing can be entirely dispensed with without violating any constitutional right of the accused. Goldsby v. United States, 160 U. S. 70; Lem Woon v. Oregon, 229 U. S. 586; Ocampo v. United States, 234 U. S. 91. But in Tinsley v. Treat, 205 U. S. 20, this court squarely held that when a proceeding was brought under 1014 with a view to removing the accused to another district, a preliminary hearing was a constitutional right of the accused and that the exclusion of evidence in rebuttal of the accusation was a violation of the Constitution. It is, we submit, impossible to reconcile this decision with the view advocated by the Government that an order of discharge in a removal proceeding is not only not technically res judicata but is a mere idle gesture having no legal consequence, since it may be immediately nullified by a new warrant and another arrest. In re Wood, 95 Fed. 288. Where an issue has been judicially determined, whether that adjudication is technically res judicata or not, there is a well settled rule that another judicial tribunal exer Opinion of the Court. 268 U.S. cising concurrent jurisdiction has no power to retry or redetermine the same issue unless there is a showing of arbitrary action or exceptional impropriety in the judicial conduct of the first trial or hearing. United States v. Oppenheimer, 242 U. S. 85; Johnson Company v. Wharton, 152 U. S. 252; New Orleans v. Citizens' Bank, 167 U.S. 371; Lane v. Watts, 234 U. S. 525; Noble v. Union River Logging R. R. 147 U. S. 165; Howe v. Parker, 190 Fed. 738; Ross v. Stewart, 227 U. S. 530; Ross v. Day, 232 U. S. 110; Marquez v. Frisbie, 101 U. S. 473; United States v. Yeung Chu Keng, 140 Fed. 748; Ex parte Wong Yee Toon, 227 Fed. 247. Decisions on the effect of a discharge in a habeas corpus proceeding have a distinct bearing upon the question here involved. Even where the accused has been remanded this court has indicated that in many circumstances the prior decision remanding the accused should be given controlling weight. Salinger v. Loisel, 265 U. S. 224; Wong Doo v. United States, 265 U. S. 239. There are particular reasons why the general rule as to the effect of a former adjudication should be held to apply to removal cases under § 1014 where the defendant has been discharged after a full hearing. As we have already pointed out, the right to a hearing is firmly based upon the Constitution itself and any infringement of that right is not mere error but a violation of the constitutional rights of the accused. Harlan v. McGourin, 218 U. S. 442. The Solicitor General for the United States. MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court. The appellants in these several appeals were indicted. in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, along with other persons and a number of cor 390 Opinion of the Court. Proceed porations, for a violation of the Sherman Act. ings were brought under § 1014 R. S. before a United States commissioner to remove them from Illinois to the trial district in Ohio. After a hearing the commissioner ordered their discharge for want of probable cause. Subsequently, similar proceedings were instituted before a federal district judge of the Illinois district, and appellants were taken into custody by the United States marshal upon a warrant issued by the district judge. Thereupon, in advance of a hearing, they sued out writs of habeas corpus in the court below seeking to be discharged upon the ground that the proceedings before the district judge were without authority of law and in violation of their constitutional and statutory rights. The specific ground relied upon was that their discharge by the commissioner for want of probable cause after a hearing was an adjudication upon that question and a bar to a second proceeding. The court below held otherwise and entered orders quashing the writs. 3 Fed. Rep. (2d) 816. The Government has moved this Court to dismiss the appeals or affirm the judgments for lack of substance and on the ground that the appeals were taken solely for delay. The motion to affirm must be sustained. Under state law it has uniformly been held that the discharge of an accused person upon a preliminary examination for want of probable cause constitutes no bar to a subsequent preliminary examination before another magistrate. Such an examination is not a trial in any sense and does not operate to put the defendant in jeopardy. Marston v. Jenness, 11 N. H. 156, 161-162; Nicholson v. The State, ex rel. Collins, 72 Ala. 176, 178; Ex parte Crawlin, 92 Ala. 101; Ex parte Fenton, 77 Cal. 183; State v. Jones, 16 Kan. 608, 610; In re Garst, 10 Neb. 78, 81; In re Oxley and Mulvaney, 38 Nev. 379, 383. The same rule applies in extradition proceedings. In re Kelly, 26 Fed. Rep. 852; Collins v. Loisel, 262 U. S. 426, |