Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-09
WASHINGTON.
The Bars Put Up Against
the Heather Chinese.
GIST OF THE ANTI-CHINESE BILL.
Evarts Slings Rhetoric at the Fish
cries Treaty-A Hot Day
Followed by Rain.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD


WASHINGTON, August SIN the Senate
Stewart moved that the regular business
(bills on the calendar) be laid aside and
the Chinese prohibition bill taken up.
Agreed to; yeas 40, nays 3-Senators.
Berry, Coke and Jones. of Arkansas,
The bill was then passed without
division.
PROVISIONS OF THE BILL.
The bill provides that from and after
the date of the exchange Of ratifications
of the pending treaty between the United
States and China, signed on the 18th of
March, 1888, it shall be unlawful for any
Chinese person whether subject of China
or any other power, to enter the United
States except as in this bill provided.
Chinese officials, teachers, students,
merchants and travellers for pleasure or
curiosity shall be permitted to enter the
United States, but in order to entitle
themselves to do SO, they shall first OBJ
tain permission OF the Chinese govern
ment or other government of which they
may be at the time citizens or subjects.
Such permission. and also their personal
identity shall in such case be evidenced
by a certificate to be made out by dip
lomatic representative of the United
States in that country, or of a consular
representative of the United States in
| that country, or OF consular representa-
| tive of the United States at the port
or place from which the person named
| therein comes. The certificate shall con-
| tain full description of such person, of
his age, height and general physical
features; shall state his former and pres
ent occupation or profession or place of
residence, and shall be made out in du-
plicate. One copy shall be delivered by
the diplomatic or consular officer to the
captain of the vessel on which the person
named in the certificate Gets sail for the
United States, together with sealed GER
tifcates which shall be addressed
to the Collector of Customs at the
port where the person is to land.
There shall be delivered to the captain
a letter from the consular officer ad-
dressed to the collector of customs, and
stating that such consular officer has on
a certain day delivered such captain
certificate of right of the person named
therein to enter the United States as
Chinese official, or other exempted per-
son as the case may be, and any captain
who lands or attempts to land Chinese
person in the United States without
having in his possession such certificate,
shall be liable to certain penalties.
The provisions of the act are to apply
to all persons of the Chinese race,
whether subjects of China or other for
eign power, excepting Chinese diplomats
or consular officers and their attendants,
and the words "Chinese laborer," when
ever used in this act, shall be construed
to mean both skilled and unskilled la
borers and Chinese employed IN mining.
The master OF any vessel arriving in
the United States from any foreign port
or place with any Chinese passengers
Oh board, shall, when he delivers
his manifest of cargo, and if there be
no cargo, when he makes legal entry
of his vessel, and before landing or
permitting to land any Chinese person,
unless a diplomatic or consular officer
or attendant of such officer deliver to
the collector of the customs Of the dis
trict in which the vessel shall have ar
rived the sealed certificates and letters as
aforesaid, and separate list of all
Chinese taken on board his vessel at any
foreign port or place, and of all such per-
sons on board at the time OF arrival as
aforesaid. Such list shall show the
names OF such persons and other par
ticulars as shown by their certificates
and other evidences required by this act,
and such list shall be sworn to by the
master in the manner required by law in
relation to mantle at OF cargo.
The master OF any vessel shall not
permit any Chinese diplomatic or con-
sular officer to land without first having
been informed by the collector of Gus
toms of the official character of such
officer or attendant.
From and after ;he passage of = this act
no Chinese laborer in the United States
shall be permitted, after having left, to
return thereto, unless he has lawful
wife, child or parent in the United States,
or property therein of the value of one
thousand dollars, or debts of like
amount due him and pending settlement.
The marriage to such wife must have
taken place at least year prior to the
application of the laborer for permit to
return to the United States and must
have been followed by continuous
cohabitation of the parties as man and
wife.
The Chinese laborer possessing the re-.
quisite certificate shall be admitted to,
the United States only at the port from
which he departed therefrom, and no
Chinese person except Chinese diploma
tic consular officers and their attendants,
shall be permitted to enter the United
States except at the port of San Francis
co, Portland, Or, Boston, New York.
New Orleans, Port Townsend, or such .
other ports as may be designated by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
AnV (IhipQcQ nnrcon or v>oreox, Il NJ:
nese descent found unlawfully in the
United States or it's territories may be
arrested upon a warrant issued upon
complaint under oath filed by any party
on behalf of the United States by any
Justice, Judge or commissioner Of any
United States court, returnable before
any Justice, judge or commissioner of
any United States court or before any
United States court, and when convicted,
upon hearing, and found and adiudged
to be one not lawfully entitled to be or
remain in the United States, such person
shall be removed from the United States
to the country whence he came, but any
such Chinese person convicted before the
commissioner of the United States court
may within ten days from such con-
viction appeal to the Judge or district
court for the district.
A certified copy Of judgment shall be
made, and it. may be executed by the
marshal of the district or any officer hav-