Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-17
CUNNING MoNaoLlAns.
Restriction Law Has No Tcrrors for Thorn
They Cross from Canada Into the
United States in Large Numbers.

Restriction Law Has No Tcrrors for Thorn
They Cross from Canada Into the
United States In Large Numbers.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-Mr. ingalls,
yesterday laid before the Senate let
ter from the Acting Secretary of the
Treasury transmitting copies Of reports
from special agents at points on the Ca
madam frontier upon the question of the
laws for the exclusion of Chinese labor
ers.
Special Agent Whitehead, stationed
at Suspension Bridge, N, Y, in his re-
port calls attention to information re-
ceived by him that there is a large num-
Der OF Cinnamon now in Toronto, re-
GENTLY arrived from British Columbia,
who, 1t is believed, will find their way
into the United States.
Wing Tai & Co. and Lee Wing, of To-
ronto, he says, are prominent leaders of
their countrymen and are said to re-
ceive $50 each for landing their country
men across the line. Close watch is
kept on this part of the frontier and
thirteen arrests have been made within
the past three weeks, and this he thinks
will doubtless have tendency to check
the immigration of these persons, but
there is no reason to believe that it can
be stopped altogether.
An arrest and return to Canada, he
says, seems to have the effect of causing
them to seek some other outlet, and
there are instances where special agents
have arrested and returned Cinnamon to
Canada and the same are now engaged
in pursuits peculiar to their people in
the city of New York. If the depart
ment, he says, should direct that every
Chinese person found unlawfully in the
United States be removed to China, a
second attempt to come here will not be
made, but the present system will not
effectually keep out this undesirable
class. Another phase of the subiectand
one that has caused some embarrass-
ment and is likely to become more seri-
GUS is that Chinese persons are found un-
lawfully in the United States, smuggled
from Canada, and that they do not have
certificates showing that they have paid
the Dominion customs tax. They can
not be returned, as under the circum
stances the Dominion customs officers
will refuse to admit them, and he re-
quests the department to give some in
structions touching on this matter.
Special Agent Brooks reports from
Toronto, Canada, under date of May 1:
For two days the case of All May and
his brother has been before United
States Consul Pope. These Cinnamon
recently came from Vancouver, B. c.
Under pretense of taking his brother to
see Chinese doctor in the United
States, All May wanted to cross the
boundary line and they would have
given satisfactory evidence that they
were entitled to admission had he not
been present and objected for the reason
that neither consuls or collectors as a
rule knew the nature of the evidence re-
quired as proof of a Chinese right as
merchant to enter, or what con nstitutes
a merchant under the res friction act
United States Consu Pope, he says, is
fair representative of his class of Off
cials, but he knows absolutely nothing
concerning legislation affecting Chi
nese, nor has he been supplied with any
copy of any law restricting Chinese i'm
migration or excluding their laborers.
That more Chinese have not crossed the
border under cover of the seal of this
consulate must be because they did not
seek to cross by that route. The State
Department can not too soon put into
the hands of our consuls along the Ca
madam border copy of all laws regard
ing Chinese immigration and exclusion
and the latest decisions of the Treasury
Department under these laws. He says
he is credibly informed from Chinese
sources that organized effort has, dur
ing the past year, unlawfuily put over
into the United States upwards of 200
Chinese.