The morning call., 1892-09-27
DEFY THE SIX COMPANIES.
Four Chinese Register and Obey the
Gesry Law.

Four Chinese Register ana ODey the
| Gesry Law.
| Is this the expected break?
Collector Quinn thinks it is.
His chief deputy, Captain Youngberg, is
| Of the same opinion.
General McComb. Chief Of the Chinese
| Registration Bureau. thinks 1t looks that
! way.
Four Chinese registered according to the
| new law yesterday.
| And Immediately thereafter the air be-
came filled with rumors and rumors.
For little while the officials of the regis
| tration bureau wore an expectant air and
kept their books open expecting a rush.
1t was thought to be the expected break
of the Chinese from the domination of the
| Six Companies.
| Reports came that the Chinese had banded
together to resist the Six Companies and
openly defy their power
Came also the reports that the Six Conn.,
panies had removed the ban against the
registration OF the Chinese, and had ad-
| yised them TO comply with the law
| None of these reports were verified by
| aught which occurred at the Collectors
Office yesterday.
| Four Chinese registered.
| And that's all there was, on the surface
at least, TO the matter.
| 1t is. however. more than likely that
| other Chinese. who desire TO remain in
this country after May next, will soon
follow suit
And to this end the registration officials
| have decided to clothe the identity of these
| initial four with the most impenetrable
| secrecy.
-Four Chinese registered to-day" said
| General McComb.
And when he had uttered this truism he
| became as impenetrable as the sphinx.
| 1--WE have decided to simply say that four
Chinese registered" said Captain Young
berg.
at all.
Collector Quinn was mum entirely.
He didn't even know except by hearsay
testimony, that any Chinese had registered.
Still, everybody is not in the Federal SER
vice.
And people who are not are often more
communicative than those who are.
And these people who are not In the
| Federal employ say that one OF the Chinese
who registered yesterday was merchant
of this city about to embark for China.
He wasn't going to take any chances
about being permitted to land when he
returns TO this country.
The new law does not make 1t mandatory
on the part IF Chinese merchants to regis
ter. but 1t does provide that merchants who
| desire to do so may register free OF charge.
This Chinese merchant, whoever he was,
had long head, the registration officials
| believe.
When he returns from China he will just
| slide right in without having to 60 through
the habeas corpus mill.
Who were the other Celestials who regis
tered?
question easier asked than answered.
Il is said, however, by those who claim
to know that one Of them is a leborer from
| San Jose, one from Oakland and the other
well, even those who claim to be real wise
don't know where he came from.
1t is stated for a fact, though, that three
| of the Celestials came from out of town and
| the fourth was local merchant.
1t need scarcely be explained why the
officials are so secretive about the identity
of these four Celestials.
Their registration was a defiance Of the
laws Of the Six Companies as enunciated in
the prCclamatiOns OF these societies and
| published in THE CALL.
| The publication OF their names, the Fed
eral officials have every reason to believe,
would be little short of signing their death
| warrant.
At all events. to reveal their identity
| would be to subject them TO the persecu-
tions Of the hignbinders and the Six Com
panies.