Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-25
CHINESE BARRED OUT.
They Will Have No Chance at All to
Come to the United States ~
FOR THE NEXT SCORE OF YEARS
If Congressman Stump's Proposed Bill
Should Become Law.
WHAT CONGRESS MAY DO THIS WEEK

States for period of 20 years, which he
will lay before the committee at an early
day. Mr. Stump has considerable knowl-
edge of the effects of Chinese immigration,
having been member of the House Com
mittee of the last Congress that visited the
Pacific coast and conducted an investiga-
tion on the subject His bill is long one,
of is sections. and drawn with careful at
tention as to details.
Mr.. Stump invites criticism of anv feat
ures of the bill from persons interested in
the subject. Its principal provisions are as
follows: IT is made unlawful for period of
20 wears after the passage of the act for any
Chinese laborers, whether subjects of the
Chinese Empire or any other foreign gov,
ernment including those now here and who
may hereafter leave the country and at
tempt to return here, and those who have
never been here, or. having been here, have
departed theretrom. TO come within or cross
the boundaries of the United States or TO
come to or within, to land or remain at any
port or place within the United States.
This provision applies to Chinese laborers
who come to the United States for the
purpose of transit only, as well as to those
who come for any other purposes.
No Chinese to BE Allowed In.
The coming of any Chinese persons other
than laborers, is also absolutely prohibited,
except as hereafter provided for. The words
'1aborer or laborers' are to be construed to
mean both skilled and unskilled laborers.
All Chinese other than laborerS desiring to
pass through. or over any portion of the
United States in transit, or to visit the
country temporarily for any purpose will be
required to obtain permit from the United
States consul at the port of departure, spec
flying the object, etc, of their visit, and
containing personal description of them
selves and of those persons accompanying
them. Any Chinese merchant now residing
in the United States and doing a business
of which the sales amount to at least $40 600
per wear, desiring temporarily to visit
abroad will be allowed to return to the
United States provided he establishes salts
factory evidence of the above facts before
his departure.
Nothing contained in the act is to pre-
vent the coming into the country of Chi
nese persons who may be duly accredited to
the United States Government as Ministers
Plenipotentiary, Ambassadors, or other
diplomatic representatives, Consuls Gen
eral, consular and commercial agents. and
other officers of the Chinese or other gov
ernments travelling upon the business of
their governments, with their immediate
families and body and household servants.
Punishment for Breaking the Law.
The master of any vessel knowingly
bringing into the country any Chinese per-
sons in violation of law will be liable TO
punishment, and every vessel whose master
knowingly violates any of the provisions of
the act will be deemed forfeited to the
United States. 1t is made the duty of all
Chinese persons now in the United States
10 register before an officer of the United
States within five months after the passage
of the act and to apply for resident Ger
tihcate granting them permission to remain
within the United States. Persons found
thereafter unprovided with a certificate as
required by the act will be liable to deporta-
non, unless they can show that by some un-
avofSable causes they had been unable to |
prOcureNtheir certificate, and that they were
residents of the United States at the time
OF the passage of the act 1t is made tln- |
lawful for common carriers to transport or
for anyone to employ anv Chinaman who |
does not first exhibit his certificate of regis
tration as required by the act
Fines May Be Worked Out.
When Chinaman is convicted OF any
crime by United States Court, or of vio- |
lation of any of the provisions of this act,
and ordered to be deported to China, it
may be lawful to order and direct that the
convict pay a fine not exceeding $500 and |
costs of conviction and deportation. In |
case of failure TO do so, he shall be COM
PEELED to labor upon some Government |
work long enough to satisfy said fine and |
costs, at the rate of 81 per day and rations. |
The penalty for the commission of crimes |
against the United States by Chinese per- |
sons Except those of a capital nature of the |
first degree) shall be deportation to China |
Any Chinese person entering the United |
States by way of contingous foreign ter |
ritory shall be deemed as having come di- |
rectly from China and shall be deported to |
China unless he claims to be, and produces
reasonable proof that he is, a citizen of such |
contiguous foreign territory.
No State or United States Court is here
after to admit Chinese to citizenship.
What Congress May Do This Week.
The course of proceedings in Congress
during the ninth week of the session de-
pends largely upon the manner in which
the Presidents message and the Chilean
correspondence are received. The proba-
billties, however, are strongly against the
matter being precipita!ely taken up for con-
sideration by either branch of the National
Legislature or against any discus |
sion of the subject Immediately |
on receipt of the Presidents. mes
sage. The usual formal course, doubt |
less, will be followed in each house of Con- |
gresS by referring the message and the ac- |
companyiag correspondence to the appro- |
pirate committee. Pending considera- I!
tion in committee the message and |
correspondence will be printed. |
After members have thus had. an |
opportunity to inform themselves from the |
official history of the trouble, some of them |
may desire to be heard on the floor; but |
the disposition of the most influential men |
in the Senate and in the House is adverse |
TO any unusual haste in the consideration of |
the subject. 1t is expected that the promised |
message of the President and all the cores |
pondence relating to our trouble with Chile |
will be sent to Congress tomorrow. Such |
is the intention of the Executive this even |
ing, and unless the case should suddenly |
assume some new phase requiring an addi- |
lion to the message: it will be laid before |
both Houses and read in both of them to- |
morrow afternoon.
The Senate Oh estnut Once More.
In the Senate the bill reported by the |
JOINT Committee on Printing, proposing an |
extensive revision of the present system of |
printing ard distributing public documents,
is the special order for tomorrow. In view
of the fact that the bill was killed in the
House during the past week, the Senate /
will probably set aside the special order
and take up the well known We'll and La
Ahra claims, which were under considera-
lion when the Senate last adjourned. 1t is
the purpose of the friends of these claims to
keep them steadily before the Senate until
a vote is reached upon the bill of which
they are the subject matter The printing
bill, II is thought, will be taken up later in