The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-10-31
.DEFRAUD|NG THE GOVERNMENT
Yearly the United States is Losing
an Immense Revenue in the
North.
UNLIMITED SMUGGLING ON The BORDER
Chinese Without Number Seeking
Entrance and Pauper European
Labor in Winnipeg.
And Jere Sullivan Says That Cana.
dian Cattle are Coming
In Too.
UNLIMITED SMUGGLING ON The BORDER

MINNEAPoLIs, Oct. 9.-The Journal
has the following Washington special:
Sensational reports from official sources
have reached the treasury department
regarding extensive frauds practiced up
on the United States customs revenues
by Canadian smugglers on the interna-
tional boundary of Minnesota, North
Dakota and Montana. The condition of
affairs is so startling that the treasury
department will ask congress for a large
appropriation to check it. Special Agent
Scanlon who is stationed at Chicago and
is in charge of the treasury's special
agents for the western district has re
Gently returned from visit Of inspection
of the international boundary along
Minnesota and Dakota boundaries. He
reports to Secretary Foster under date
of Oct. Is that an immense quantity of
local smuggling is going on in that
| neighbOrhOOd due in great measure to
| the fact that United States custom
! houses are located too far from the
! boundary line and to the fact of an in
sufficient force of revenue officers to
protect the customs. He refers to the
grave probabilities of a great influx of
pauper European immigration and Chi
nese laborers who enter the United States
| from Manitoba. Scanlon says: Gus
| toms will require more perfect system
Of guarding and that too, at the earliest
day which the department can get con-
gress to make appropriation to meet th1
present and coming emergencies OF the
northwest boundary line. l am fully
convinced that the protection along that
route is wholly inadequate for enforce
ment of the laws. In my opinion this
particularly is the case in the case OF
Chinese immigration and will soon be
the case in Objectionable Euro.
pean immigration. When this
| latter class find themselves
shut out from the Atlantic ports they
stray along on the lake and came in
where they can.
my own observation while in Mani
| toba confirms the state OF things re.
ported by Inspector SOelingen that the
time has now arrived, for already Rus
sian Jewish immigrants have invaded
Manitoba, and they will whether wanted
or not under the present unprotected
condition of the boundary line find theil
way into this country. My late dis
] patches show conclusively that the north
west boundary of the Lake of the Woods
is the point of Chinese invasion"
Scanlon submits the report from one
of his inspectors in Winnipeg who saws
that ten or more families of Russian
Jews reach Winnipeg every day
They are landed at Halifax
and sent west under promise
that the Manitoba government has pro
vidcd fund for their support. This is
/ untrue, of course and the destitute i'm
migrants wander down into the United
States. Inspector Day at Pembina re
ports that prohibited Chinese laborers
are entering North Dakota from Mani
toba. coming overland in wagons. Crane
Forks is their headquarters. Inspector
Stone, who has just returned from Lake
of the Woods country, writes that a Min
neapolis firm known as the Baltimore
Packing company, composed of Edward
II. Leclaire, John II. Locke and M. +,