Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-24
CHINESE OBJECT
To the Registration Act Of the
United States,
And VIII Petition the President
to Nullify 1t.

The Signatures of All tho Monaghan Mer-
chants in San Francisco Are to he OBJ
tanned - The Six Companies Did Not
Advise Chinese to Disregard the Law.
How win the Matter End?
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 24.-The pub
lished statement has been made here
that two circulars alleged to have been
issued recently by the Chinese six com
panies advising Chinese laborers in the
United States TO disregard the Chinese
registration act passed at the last session
OF congress, was hoax. This does not
apply to the letter sent by the presidents
OF the Six companies to the collector of
internal revenue, the authenticity of
which is not questioned. The two circu-
lars which are said to have been O hoax
were published during the past few days
by morning paper here, which printed
both the Chinese text and the English
translation Thursday morning.
Another newspaper published state
ment to the effect that these alleged cir
culars were incorrect and ii published
translations made by former mission
airy in China which seemed to show that
the original Chinese text was different
from the statements which had first
been published in English. In fact in
one case the missionary's translation
was simply notice issued by the Chi
nese consul general here in regard to
sanitory precautions to be taken by the
Chinese to prevent the introduction Of
cholera. Notwithstanding this fact,
however, the paper which first pub
lished the two circulars has obtained O
written statement from the Chinese vice
consul in this city in which he says the
TRANSACTIONS which were obtained from
him were correct.
1t also obtained written statement
from the secretary of the six companies
in which he says the circulars as pub
lished in that paper are substantially
correct, though not published in full.
In addition to this. the letter sent by the
presidents of the six companies to the
collector of internal revenue expressly
states that the six companies have is
sued circular advising Chinese laborers
that the registration law is unconstitu-
tional, and suggesting that they do not
comply with it.
Explanation is offered by the paper
which first published the circulars that
it had in its possession the Chinese text,
both Of the circulars in regard to regis
tration, and Of the cholera proclamation.
and by mistake 1t published the latter
but gave the English translation of the
former 1t did not claim to publish the
English translation Of the other circular
in regard to the registration act in full,
but simply gave synopsis Of it, and it
now states it was owing to that fact
that its translation did not correspond
exactly with that made by the mission
airy. The whole trouble seems to have
grown out of lack of familiarity with
the Chinese language.
There is no doubt but that the Chi
nese of this city propose to make fight
about the registration act 1t has been
learned that the six companies sent out
a committee of seven men Wednesday
evening to visit all the stores in the Chi
nese quarters and secure signatures of
all merchants to a petition to be sent to
the Chinese government asking that
agents be sent to this country; first to
make themselves acquainted with all
the circumstances of the registration
act by comforting with Chinese in this
city, and then to proceed to Washington
and request President Harrison to take
some action to nullify the law.