The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-10

ment OF the law prohibiting the coming or
Chinese to the United States has been eff
fective as to such as seek to land from
vessels entering our ports. The result has
been to divert the travel to vessels entering
the ports of British Columbia, whence
passage into the United States at obscure
points along the Dominion boundary is
easy. A very considerable number of Chi
nese laborers have, during the past year,
entered the United States from Canada
and Mexico The officers of the treasury
department and of the department of jus
tice have used every means at their COM
mand to intercept this immigration, but
the impossibility of perfectly guarding
our extended frontier is apparent. The
Dominion government collects head tax
of $50 from every Chinese entering Can
ada. and thus derives a considera BILE
revenue from those who Only use its ports
| to reach position of advantage to evade
our exclusion laws.
There seems to be satisfactory evidence
that the business of passing Cinnamon
| through Canada to the United States is
organized and quite active The depart
| ment of Justice has construed the laws to
require the return of any Chinaman found
to be unlawfully in this country to China,
as the country from which they came not
withstanding the fact that he came by
way of Canada. But several of the dis
trict courts have, in cases brought before
them, overruled this view of the law and
decided that such persons must be return
ed TO Canada. This construction robS the
law of all effectiveness, even if the DEGREES
could be executed, for the men returned
can the next day recross our border But
the only appropriate mode Is for sending
them back to China, and the Canadian
officials refuse to allow them to reenter
Canada without the payment of the $50
per head tax. L recommend such legisla-
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law.
NEEDED LAWS.
In previous messages / have called the
attention of congress to the necessity f so
extending the jurisdiction of the United
States courts as to make triable therein
any felony committed while in the act of
violating law of the United States.
These courts cannot have that iDdepen-
dence and effectiveness which the consti-
tuition contemplates so long as the felon-
ious killing of high court officers, jurors
and witnesses in the discharge OF their
duties, or by reason of their acts as such,
is only cognizable in the state courts The
work done by the attorney general and the
officers of his department., even under the
present inadequate legislation. has pro-
duced some notable results in the interest
of law and order.
The attorney general and also the com
attention to the defectiveness and made
quacy of the laws relating to crimes
against chastity in the District of Colum-
bia. 4 stringent code upon this subject
has been provided by congress for Utah,
and it is a matter OF surprise that the
needs of this district should have been SO
long overlooked.
THE POsTOFFICE DEPARTMENT.
In the report of the postmaster general
some very gratifying results are exhibited
and betterments Of the service suggested.
A perusal of the report gives abundant
evidence that the supervision and dIrec- |
ton of the postal system have been char
acteriZed by an intelligent and conscI- |
entious desire to improve the service. The /
revenues of the department show an in |
crease Of over s., 900. 900, while the estimate l
for the year 1893 shows a surplus Of re-
ceipts over expenditures.
Ocean mail post offices have been estab- /
lished upon the steamers OF the North |
German Lloyd and Hamburg lines. saving |
BY the distribution on shipbOard from two /
70 fourteen hours time IN the delivery Of |
mail at the port of entry and often much 1
more than this in the delivery at interior
places. So thoroughly has this system /
initiated by Germany and the United /
States evidenced its usefulness that it
cannot be long before il IS installed upon /
all the great ocean mail carrying steam
ships.
Eight thousand miles of new postal /
service has been established upon rail-
roads The car distribution 10 suostations
In the great cities bas been increased about
y per cent. while the percentage Of errors
in distribution has, during the past year.
been reduced over one-haif.
An appropriation was given by the last
congress for the purpose Of making some
experiments in free deIiverF. III the smaller
a Il 4 L
periments have been 50 satisfactory thai
the post master general recommends, and I
concur ia the recommendation, that the
free delivery system be at once extended
to towns Of ) 90 population.
His discussion Of the in4dequate facilE- =
ties EXTENDED uader our present system 20
rural communities ard his suggestions,
fuller participation IN the benefits II the
postal service. arr worthy Of Tour careful
consideration Il Is not Just that tbs
farmer, who receives his mail az tie neigh |
boring town, SHOULD uot Only be compelled
70 send to the postoftice for il, buE 20 pay a
considerable reat foE oox ia which 20
place u or WAX bis time ~ general
delivery = indoE, while the city resident
Las his mail brought TO his d0or
II * stated that over 81. 90 neigh Dor
hoods, are. ander the present system rs-
se5yiug mail 81 fzostoEssces EneTe money
,rieE~ and psesial notes are not izs8ed
! ae extension - this system ~ aese eoEa-
GuuSesSs - especially desirable as TIE
1ssroas o. such Offices Are Het Possessed q
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