Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-10
Lively Debite in the House on the
Tariff QUESTION.
OUR RELATIONS WITH MEXICO.
Reports Of Inspectors on the Diff
Guilty of Keeping the Canadian
Border Closed.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uN1oS. ]
CHINE.E EVASION.
Reports of the Treasury Inspectors :
Ignorant Collectors and Consuls.

Ignorant Collectors and Consuls.
WAsHINeToN, May 9th.-Acting Secretary
of the Treasury Batchelder forwarded &c
the Senate to-day the reports of the Chinese
Inspectors st Toronto, Canada, and the
Niagara suspension bridge. The first
one, from the Bridge Inspector, is as fol
lows:
OFFICE SPECIAL AGENT TREASURY DEPARTMENT !
SUSPENSION BRIDGE, n. y, April so, 1890. {
Honorable Secretary Of ute TreGsnry--sIR: have
the honor 10 report tnat special employe Lewis
in this office arrested two Cinnamon yesterday
who had smuggled themselves into the United
States from Canada, and that said cinnamon
have been placed in the custody of the United
States Marshal pending examination.
respectfully invite attention TO the fact that,
according 10 my information, there are large
number OF Chinese now in Toronto Canada, re-
Gently arrived from Victoria, =. C., who will, il
il is believed. find there way into the United
states. Wing Tat 4 Co., OF 405 IoDge street, and
Lee Wing. OF lbs Queen street. Toronto, are
prominent leaders in of their countrymen, and
Chinese across the line. The fact that a close
watch is kept on this port, thirteen arrests hav-
ing been made within the past thee weeks. will
doubtless have tendency to check the immi-
grafton of these persons, but there is no reason
to believe that We can stop it altogether The
arrest and return TO Canada of one of them,
seems to have the effect only OF inducing him TO
seek some other outlet. Indeed there are in
stances within my knowledge where special
employe Lewis has twice arrested Cinnamon
and returned them to Canada, and the same
men are now engaged in pursuits peculiar to
their people in the city of New York.
If the Department should direct that every
Chinese person found unlawfully within the
United States be removed therefrom to China,
a second attempt to come here would probably
not be made; but, as have indicated. the pres
ent mode will not effectually exclude this un-
desirable class.
Another phase of the subject that has caused
,laQr ID
to become more serious question in the near
future, is this. Chinese persons are found un-
lawfully within the United States smuggled
from China, and do not have certificates show
ing they have paid the Dominion customs tax
of $50 head. How are they TO be returned +?
The Dominion customs officials viii certainly
refuse TO admit such persons into Canada with
out proper certificates. snd our officers must
choose in the absence of further instructions,
between smuggling them back and placing
them on the bridges connecting the two ooun-
tries. where they are certain to suffer much dis
eomfture before re ease, TO say nothing of the
annoyance such action will cause the officers
OF the bridge companies
respectfully ask such advice and instruction
as the Department may deem pertinent. Very
GEORGE W. WHITEHEAD
Special Agent
NEW DopGFs.
The report of Special Agent Brooks, at
Toronto, Canada, is dated May 1st, and is
as follows:
Hon. WiRiam Hindom Secretary Of 1e Treasury
SIR: For two days the case OF An Moy and
brother has been before United States Consul
Pope of this city These Cinnamon recently
came from Vancouver, B. c. Under pretense of
taking his brother to see a Chinese doctor in
the United States All Moy wants to cross the
boundary. / presume they would have given
satisfactory evidence that they were entitled to
admission to The United States had not been
present to object, for the reason that neither
Consuls nor Collectors of Customs as a rule
know the nature of the evidence required as
proof OF Chinese right as merchant to enter
the United States, tor what constitutes "mer-
chant under the Chinese Restriction Act.
United States Consul Pope is fair representa-
tive of his class of officials. He is able inielli
gent, etc., but knows absolutely nothing con-
cerning legislation affecting the Chiuese nor
has he been supplied with copy of any law
restricting Chinese immigration or excluding
Cnlnese !aborers. That more Chinese have not
crossed the border under cover of the seal of the
Consulate must be because they did not seek to
cross by that route.
into the hands of our Consuls along the Canada
border q copy of the laws affecting Chinese i'm
migration ano exclusion, and the latest decis-
ions OF the Treasury Department under said
laws, and recommend that all our collectors of
customs, especially on the Northern border, be
similarly provided.
Knowing that the Canadian Government will
not furnish the certificates required by Section
6, put the case of the Chinese merchant sim
ply thus: Before his application for entry into
the United states can be considered, he must
produce the certificate required by section 6
of the Act from the Chinese Government or its
duly authorized representative" Because All
Moy and his brother had not this certificate
they, were finally refused the prayers they
sought
l am credibly informed, from a Chinese
source, that an organized effort In this city has
during the past year, unlawfully put into the
United States upwards OF 30 Chinese. Respect
fully, JAMES J. BROOKS.