Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-25
WEB FLANAGAN
Indicted by Federal Grand
Jury at FL Paso.
IRREGULARlTY is CHARGED
Against Him and Deputies In Regard to
Entry Of Chinese.
The Affair Creates Profound Sensation II
Ell Paso-The Grand Iup Gels Alter
Several Federal Office Holders
Especially Deputy Marshals.

Ell PAso, TEX; Oct PA Especial. i
A big sensation visited itself upon i'll
Paso to-day by the arrest OF Hon.
Webster Flanagan, collector of Gus
toms at this port, his special deputy
collector, S. W. Pimm, and a. Ii,
Joke, q Chinaman, all charged with
having entered Chinese in the United
States unlawfully.
The indictments were delivered to
to the court this afternoon by the Fed
raj grand jury and the papers were i'm
mediately served by a deputy United
States marshal.
TWO BILLS WERE FOUND
against Collector Flanagan, better
known to the political world us What
are we here for Flanagan" 1t is under
stood that an indictment was also found
against l.. 5. Irwin, Central agent OF
this district on this charge. Mr. Irwin
is away from his post of duty making
stump speeches in Nebraska for Harri-
son.
1t is further rumored that several
Cinnamon are wanted but have not yet
been found by the marshal.
1t has been
A STREET RUAioR
for some months that Chinese were en-
tering this part in great numbers, and
railroad men on the Mexican Central
claim that Cinnamon have been coming
up from the interior OF Mexico in large
numbers TO small station named San
Jose, sixty miles I ON the frontier,
whence they were taken in charge and
conducted across tho line. The grand
jury found that the custom officials
had been in the habit OF issuing passes
for Cinnamon to visit Mexico, aud ii is
believed these passes have been used
to bring in celestials not entitled tC
| enter the United States. Upon this
subject the grand jury in its report
says:
examination that the port Of FL Paso, as 0
| port OF entry, is an open port so far as the
| Chinese exclusion acts are concerned, or IN
| other words, that the law at this port Is .
| dead letter, as Chinese laborcrs seem u
| come at will and'respectfully call attention
Of the secretary Of the treasury to the fact
The report then criticises the Gus
toms officers at length for making un
warrantable seizures Of stock iounC
grazing along the border, OF which thu
following is Il part;
| Instances nave tOWb 10 buI huhlNNN a
| grand Jurors, where both horses and mule
| have been seized within the past year
where the person they were taken from wa
rot convicted, b 1t acquitted Of smuggling
| but the animals were seized and SOLD an
tho ownor never got the money ana noNe
knew what had become OF It, aud wer
positive, from information received, tina
In some cases, OF least, both horses an'
mules were dropped and raised in Jexa
and never saw the other side OF the river
or within fifty miles of IT,
The grand jury then devoted its at
tention to some OF Mr.. Harrison's ap
pointments In the following terse Ian
guage:
We. regret to have to report the fact o
the appointment IN our district OF deput
marshals Of absolute and drunken haoits
and In some cases we fnd that they hav
been appointed for the sole purpose OF car
rying arms so they may domineer over in
offensive persons.