Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-09
TWO CHINESE PUZZLES.
How Can the Celestials be Kept Out,
and How Sent Back II They Slip in?

Assistant Secretary Tichenor Of the Treas
| ury Department, in response to the Senate res
olution calling for information relative to the
evasion Of the law prohibiting Chinese
| immigration, today sent to the Senate re-
ports from special agents stationed along
the border. Under date of Suspension Bridge,
New York, April 80 1889, Special Agent George
". Whitehead reports that Special Employe
Lewis on April 20 arrested two Cinnamon who
had struggled themselves into the United
States from Canada. The latter then invites
attention to the fact that, according to the
agents information, there are large number of
Cinnamon now in Toronto, Ont, recently ar
rived from Victoria, T.. c., who will, it is be-
heved. find their way into the United States.
Wing Tai Il Co., of 405 Yonge street, and Lee
wing. l2S Queen street. Toronto, are promi-
| nent leaders of their countrymen and are said
| to receive $50 per head for landing them across
the line.
THIRTEEN ARRESTS IN THREE WEEKS.
That close watch is kept of this part Of the
| frontier is shown by the fact that thirteen ar
rests have been made within the past three
weeks, which 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 OF one of them seems to have the
effect only of causing him to seek some other
outlet. If the department should direct that
every Chinese person found unlawfully in the
Unitek States be removed therefrom to China,
second attempt to come here would prob
ably not be made, but the present method will
not etfectually keep out this undesirable class.
SERIOUS QUESTION.
Mr.. Whitehead then calls attention to
phase of the subject which. he says, is likely
to become serious question. Chinese per-
sons are found unlawfully within the United
States, smuggled from Canada and they
do not have certificates showing that
they have paid the Dominion customs
tax OF $50 per head. How are they to be re-
turned to the country whence they came? he
asks The Dominion customs officers will GER
tainIy refuse to admit such persons into
Canada without the proper certificates, and
our officers will then have to
choose, in the absence of further
instructions, between smuggling them back and
placing them on the bridges connecting the
two countries, where they are certain to suffer
much discomfort before release to say nothing
of the annoyance such action will cause Off
GERS OF the bridge companies.
All MoY AND HIS BROTHER.
Special Agent James B. Brooks, under date
of Toronto, Canada, May 1. says that for two
days past the case of All Moy and his brother
has been before United States Consul Pope.
Inc Cdln0 lrOm vancouver,
b. c.. and All Moy wanted to cross the bound
airy line on pretense of taking his brother to
see Chinese doctor in the United States.
CONsULs WHO DON'T KNOW THE LAWS.
II presume" he says. they would have
given satisfactory evidence that they were en-
titled to admission into the United States had
not been present to object, for the reason that
neither cOnsnls nor collector of customs,
as rule, know the nature of
the evidence required as proof of
United States territory. Consul Pope is fair
representative of his class of officials; he is
able. intelligent, attentive, courteous and very
obllglug, but he knows absolutely nothing
concerning legislation affecting the Chinese,
nor has he been supplied with any copy of any
law restricting Chinese immigration or eXclud-
ing their laborers. That more Chinese nave
not crossed the border under seal of the con-
sulate mist be because they did not seek to
cross by that route"
INFORMATION SHOULD BE FURNISHED THEM.
MIR. Brooks requests that the State Depart
mcnt put into the hands of our consuls along
the Canadian border a copy of all the laws af-
fectlDg Chinese immigration and eX-
clusion. and the latest decisions of the
Treasury Depar sment under these laws. He also
recommends that all our collectors of customs,
especially on the northern border, be similarly
provided. All Moy and his brother had not
the certificate required by section 6 of the
ment says the agent, and they were.
therefore, refused the papers they
sought. The agent has also credible nforma-
ton that, during the past year, upward of 200
Cinnamon have been unlawfully sent into this
country from Canada.