, 1890-11-27
THE CHINESE EVIL
Interesting Testimony Taken by
the Joint Committee of
Congress.
How the Heathen Gross tho Long
Border and Evade the
inspectors.

| lnc ptODic VI thc aN'hS NO"''
don't like the Chinese. There are
other classes of alien labor for which
the typical westerner has little love,
but the full force of their ire has OF
late been directed like the butting
of u Shropshire ram, against the
clan who wear pigtails, allow their
shirts to flutter In the breeze outside
the walstband of their trousers and
are commonly considered AS having
solved the problem, How to live
on 3 cents day." Good Ameri-
cans are not overly proud OF any
class Of alien labor that does not
make good American citizens, and
among the people there has been II
steadily growing demand for legis-
lation that shall remedy the evil
known by the various aliases,
'pauper immigration" contract
labor,n and so on. 1t was with the
intention of aiding In the solution
of the problem, and finding the
value of 1t in the important foreign
abor VS.. home production equation
that the Joint committee of
senators and representatives was
called. The committee has
worked industriously during the
past ten months. The Atlantic sea-
board has been visited, and the
great cities of the East have been
dclved into. Representatives of
many trades and various professions
have contributed to the mass OF tes-
timony that has been taken. a
stack of note paper rs high as the
dome of Westminster abbey has
been used by the stenographers
who have kept record of what the
people have said on the question.
The subcommittee has labored
faithfully. Many hours have been
spent in making the examination.
Thousands of questions have been
asked. When the inquiry commits
sion shall have completed its work
a transcription of the notes will be
furnished to the printer at Wash
ington. Ten thousand copies of the
minutes of the committee will be
delivered from the press, and one of
them will be appended to the re-
port of the joint committee to the
great body that sent them forth up
ON their errand.
Yesterday the party visited Spo-
kane Falls.
All the members OF the sub-com-
mite were not present. Senators
Hale and Mcpherson and Repre-
sentative Covert, who were with
the party during its travels through
the East, came no further on the
journey than Chicago. The begin
ming of the coming term was at
hand.
Congressman, In common with
other inortals, have families, and to
them the trio returned 10 spend the
few week of vacation that was left
to them. Senator Squire was with
the committee during the day, but
he left on the evening train for his
home at Seattle. Representatives
Lehlbach, of New Jersey, and
Stump, of Maryland, will continue
the inquiry, and will visit Portland,
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
San Diego before returning by way
of Dallas, Tex. The party Is in
charge of Charles B. Read, sergeant
alarms of the senate, who is ac-
companied by his wife. Charles B.
Lands is acting clerk of the com
mittee, and *. NJ. Lands is the
official stenographer, The entire
party sojourned at the Hotel Spo-
kane.
Room 206 presented lively spec
tacle during the day. 1t was the
scene of the committees work. In
the forenoon the taking of testimony
beuuu, aud. in the words of Stenog-
rapher Landis, sit went on ut the
rate of $50 words a minute for five
bours.'
The testimony taken during the
fore noon was very interesting.
Thomas Roberts and Fred IL. Oil
yer, of the custom house border
service, came before the commission
and unburdened themselves of a
great deal of valuable information.
Mr.. Oliver gave his residence us
Colville and stated that he was O.
CuslOIil-ll'iSe Inspector uuNcT NOIll-
missioner Bradlaw. al have been
on the Sound coast for the purpose
OF enforcing the Chinese exclusion
act and preventing smuggling" he
said.
"T. l.. Savage, G. s. Ncum and my
self have been on about l50 miles of the
limo. We call our headquarters Col
willie, and work on the line. Since July
| have made four trips from the Little
Dalles on the Columbia river. The
Chinese have a way OF coming down by
boat to Sproats Landing, and continu-
ing their journey over the mountain
trails.
"At Kettle river they can get south,
from Kettle river to the Cascade mount
aims and snugglers would have no diff
tculty in coming through as IL IL an
open rolling country. Our party has ar
rested seven or eight Cinnamon. We
sent back some four or five that had
crossed the lines. / have reason to be-
lieve that thers are quite a number
crossing the border east OF the Cascade
mountains. The British officials aid us
in every way they can, and give IL in
formation concerning Chinnmen.
In 1886 there were 500 China
men in the vicinity of Rock
creek. One Of tho Canadian custom
house m,'n told us short time ago that
there are not more than 100 OF them
left. The rest, he supposed, had gone
south and reached the United States.
"Ihe Victoria officials ought TO know
paetIy well how many Chinese there are
IN this part of the country. Last year
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