The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-05-16
AGAIN THE CHINESE.
Iwenty-one of Them Ordered
Here for China.
Attorney schell Tells Why the Remanded
Chinese Have Not Been Deported
and How They Will Be.
The following telegram was received yes
terday by Collector of the Port Phelps:

terday by Collector of the Port Phelps:
WASHINGTON ID. c., May 18th.
CoHe ctor OF Customs, San Francisco: United
states Marshal at Los Angeles will be instructed
10 uellVer into your custody twenty-o one Chinese
!aDorers, found by United States Commissioner
10 be unlawfully in the United States. and re-
VIII lake steps to deport them to China at the
eApense OF the United States by first steamer
leaving for Hong Kong. Passage should be OBJ
tanned at most economical rates, and the China
men De retained In close custody until sailing of
Eessel. GEORGE c. TICHENoR,
Assistant Secretary.
1t appears from this telegram" said
deputy Jerome to a reporter, that the
clause in the Exclusion Act, which reads
that Chinese found to be unlawfuly within
the United States shall be returned to the
country from whence they came has, in
TINS instance, been construed to mean that
the mere fact of these coolies passing
through Mexican territory in coming here
does not make Mexico the country from
whence they came
NO GUILTY MAN SHALL ESCAPE.
We will send them back to China at the
very first opportunity. While they are
here, they will all be placed in the custody
OF the United States Marshal and securely
guarded. We propose in this instance to
let no guilty man escape. If no legal diff
culties or habeas CORPUS proceedings pre-
vent their being deported to China, 1t VIII
serve to discourage the two Chinese camps
that are pitched just over the Mexican bor
uer, ana whose occupants are waiting
chance to steal across. They are closely
watched by special agents detailed for that
purpose by Collector John X. Berry OF San
Diego, and if any of them get in unarrested
IL VIII not be for lack of vigilance"
special Attorney Schell was shown copy
OF the telegram.
ut is my opinion" he said, "that Chi
nese who come to this port in transit for
Mexican ports, and who are shortly after
ward found within the United States, will
not, under the law, be regarded as having
acquired domicile in Mexico, SO as to
make Mexico the country from whence
they come
TEMPORARY CHECK.
But ON the other hand it is equally my
opinion that when they have actually gone
to Mexico with the intention of remaining
there and stay i'll that country long enough
10 acquire domicile, then they will have
70 be returned to Mexico instead of to
China The deportation of these Chinese
VIII operate as a temporary check upon this
Mexican border business; but eventually
they VIII ind means to evade the law. 1t
can easily be done. as it now stands
What is going to be done in the case of
remanded Chinese who are out on bail and
cannot be found, and therefore cannot be
deported ?"
Well" said the attorney as he settled
Daek In MS seat, "a good deal has been said,
ana unJustly said, by the press of this
city about the dilat oriness of this office in
pushing these matters; but when you
come to know the facts you can see that |
nave not only used diligence, but that |
have resorted to every possible device in
my power to have remauded Chinese pro-
du'ed or their bOnJSlnen be made to suffer.
NOT RUNNING EVERYTHING.
am NM ha NOR rho ITnitad
States courts, nor yet tine District AttOr-
neys Offlce. | cannot run all these iDSIltu-
tons, and If they have not been as prompt
TO do their woIk as the press ciamors for, |
cannot help it. When l took this office,
some three months ago, there We're over
$50 cases in the United States Circuit Court
OF remanded Chinese still at large. and to
which no attention seems to have been
paid. / did the best | could to have these
cases cleared up.
in the first place. | prepared and sent
notices to all the bondSmen to produce their
men, or their bonds would be declared for
lelted. As result, some thirty or forty
were produced and deported to China.
Since then l drew up complaint with great
care for the purpose OF prosecuting the re-
naming cases and having the bonds for
feted. l submitted it to District Attorney
Carey, and after several weeks delay Sc
cured his consent to go ahead with 1t.
STIRRING UP DELINQUENTs.
plopOSe lo-lNOTEOW 10 submit TO Judge
Hoffman a list of all the remaining de-
lnquents, and obtain an order from him, In
the hlng of the complaint which | have
proposed, compelling them to appear and
snow cause why their bonds should not be
forfeited. When this is done the matter
will be in a fair way of successful clear
ing up. GU can rest assured that nothing
will be left undone which can be done to
push these cases.
l think that the press of this city ought
to recognize the fact that nearly all the re-
suits which have been obtained in sending
Chinese back to China have been obtained
since took this office. Particularly ought
my success in stopping the influx of
Chinese women be given due credit. | do
not believe that any more Chinese women
Will be landed at this port for immoral pur-
poses. If they are. [ Will be able to make
II cost their owners SO much as to make the
business Improbable"
The complaint alluded to above recites
the facts Ill the landing, habeas corpus pro-
ceedlnGs and remandiDg of Chau Foo, and
asks that their bondsnen, Ju Gin, Yee Tou
and Wong Lee. be made to pay the penalty
OF their bond with costs.