Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-11-10
OVER THE BORDER Official Reports of the Influx
 of Chinese.
EIGHT THOUSAND ARE COMING.
Secretary of the Treasury to Make a
 Special Report to Congress.

Extensive Smuggling of Opium and Du-
 tiable Goods-start1ins Evidence from
 the Montana. Customs Collector-Ch Chinese
 Crossing the Border With Impunity-
 Larger Appropriations Needed.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 1O.-The Treasury Department is in receipt of official re- ports of recent date from Treasury special agents in the Northwest, giving testim ony of startling nature relative to the extensive smuggling of dutiable merchandise and opium into the United States from Canada and British Colum bia, of evasions of the customs laws an of the influx into this country of large numbers of Chinamen.
 The expose of the wholesale violations of the customs laws and enormous depred dations upon the revenues due to the unprotected condition of the GUS toms frontier, has awakened the Treas ury Department to the situation. The reports of the special agents who have been called upon to investigate the mat ter will be embodied in a special com munication which the Secretary of the Treasury will make to Congress when he asks for an appropriation sufficient to enable him to check the rapidly grow ing evil of smuggling.
 Inc UnlU6u OCdCeS SOll0CUOr Ol CuS- toms for the District of Montana, with headquarters at Fort Benton, writes to Secretary Foster as follows:
 'I beg to inform the department that there is an alarming increase of arrivals of Chinese in the adjacent foreign terri tory north of here with the United States as their ultimate objective point. The force in this district at present is totally inadequate for their exclusion. We were fortunate in capturing the first considerable numbH who made the at tempt to enter, but cannot count upon circumstances favoring us always"
 The Collectors reference to favorable circumstances relates to the fact that stroke of lightning killed the smuggler who was guiding this band of Chinamen across the prairies, and the poor Celes- 1 tials, without a guide and ignorant of the country, walked plump into the Collectors hands, without any effort on the part of the customs officers.
 Continuing, the Collector says:
 ''What is requi red is a large force of mounted men stationed at intervals along the line of the Great Northern | Railway in communication by wire with this office. To be materially eff fective in enforcing the provisions of the | Chinese Exclusion act, there should be | estab lished four new stations besides
  tion upon the Montana border)-namely, | one at BlackfCot, where the 18th mer- | idian crosses the railroad; one at or near | where the filth crosses; one at Chinook, | on the 109th, and one at Poplar Creek, between the 105th and 106th meridians. i At these points prominent roads or trails | cross the border and are at such dis | tance as to be independent of each other. ] s'These stations should be supplied l rxy;tJ, tnuathn. wi f h set of harness and blackboard so that inspectors may be enabled to carry pro visions and bedding for a journey of two or more days if necessary. Upon receipt | of information of smugglers two men should start out in whatever direction | they may be advised parties are coming. | There is very little use in one man going alone and attempting to make a capture on the prairie. Chinese and smugglers usually travel in companies of from two to five and upward, and one man cannot | be expected to cope with crowd It seems to be absolutely necessary to in | tercept Chinese while on their way across he,border in order to make case.
 ''This is the maximum force that would be required to enforce the laws against Chinese in this district east of the Rocky Mountains. West of the Rockies there is a proposition that will require attention very soon.
 E'These inspectors should be men of | bravery, acquainted with the country and the work expected of them; fearless and competent to effect a capture at all | hazards. The Chinese seem to have sud denly found a large opening here, and if the United States undertakes seriously to exclude them, some such force as have outlined must be supplied" :"
 Accompanying this communication 1 from the Collector of Customs i a letter from Chinese Inspector Cummings, at
 tached to the Fort Benton district, who states that he had j,st returned from l Vancouver, B. O., the port of entry of the Chinese intruders, and that he 1 learned while there the startling fact that nearly 5000 Chinamen had landed | at Vancouver since Jan. 1 of this year.