Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-06
No USE FOR All SIN.
Geary Explains and Defends
the Exclusion Law. d
SOME WAYS THAT, ARE DARK NOTED

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Nothing New in the Way the Bin wipes
Ont treaty observation-disclosures Care
If China Does Retaliate, Nor Is He
Afraid of Losing Trade-Senators Fight
Shy of the silver Question, and Palmer
Deprecates Some Effects of the Lat q
Civil War-McCuiloch on Finances.
WASHINGTON, Ami a. Representative
Geary, of California, an interview on
the subject of the Chinese exclusion bill
passed by the house Monday, condemns
the system of taking bail in Chinese cases,
and says:
''There are now 5000 Chinese habeas corpus
cases on the docket in San Francisco. A ship
eomes in with $40 or 60 Chinese, and they are
taken before the court to be examined. An
the cases cannot he tried in one day. and hun
dreds are admitted to bail. A Chinaman comes
In, swears he is the owner of real estate, his
bond is taken, and the newly arrived Celestial
departs. When the case comes for trial the
Immigrant has disappeared, and it is found
that the Chinaman who went bond has trans
ferred all OF his property"
Done This Sort of Thing Before.
sit is said that your measure abrogates
treaty rights:"
$50 did the Scott law. according to a de-
cision of the United States supreme court
&hccS iShlS "tI6 dbTOSdleu IOuT years ago.
But if China sewers trade relations with
the United States, will not the manufacturers
here suffer-
THAT is a matter of figures. In 1870 The inn
ports from China were $40 OOOOd5 and
our exports were SaOnUO Last year
we bought Sl9OW,OoO worth from China
and exported SS00O,OOO. d. For the last
ten years the balance of trade has averaged
about sl3I6O,D0 in favor of China, and
$40 600 of our imports have been teas drugs,
etc, which did not pay duty. When China
annually sells US S2O.OUO,OOO worth of goods she
Is not likely to abrogate commercial relations
unless the moon is made of green cheese,
which do not believe lie the case"
China Can Retaliate.
Cannot China expel Americans from her
territory"
Certainly. But what would that amount
Tor There are in China today exactly l,lL5
Americans. OF this number twenty eight are
IN trade and the remainder are missionaries
seamen, and stragglers. Suppose.these people
are expelled. Then we can retaliate by ex-
Polling 10000 Chinese who are in this country
according to Mr.. Porter's census. Do you think
China wants To 90 into the expulsion business?
Hardly; especially when her citizens who are
here send more than Sl,0D,O0 back to China
annually as the result of their interference
with American labor 1t would be a good
thing to expe. these Cinnamon. OF the 30DD
In San Francisco an average OF 10 are before
the courts each year on charges extending
from murder downward. Our states prison has
u6 Chinese in IL now"
Reason for Excluding Merchants.
why do you exclude merchantsg'
For the simple reason that when China
man wants to go back to his native land he
buys an interest in some business for small
amount, and then is entitled to a certificate as
q merchant. On the other side he sells his
certificate and the new owner comes in under
1t 1t is very difficult to detect fraud and
the privilege has been so abused that it
must be stopped. We have given the
secretary of the treasury the dis
erection to allow certain Cinnamon to enter
Even this is objected to the Pacific slope,
but we did il so that if the secretary makes
any rules he can annul them should they he
abused. This prOmptness would be impo sible
IN the case of statute enacted by congress
and no secretary will allow the Chinese to
take advantage of him."
will the bill pass the senator"
81 have no doubt of it,"