The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-26
THE PREsIDENTAND THE CHINESE
A Letter to the House Defines the Posi-
ton of the Administration.

Letter to the House Defines the Posi-
ton of the Administration.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Great inter-
est centered in the session of the House
today as it was known a communication
would be received stating the position of
the president and administration on the
Chinese exclusion question. The posi-
ton occupied by the administration re-
garding the execution of the Geary excIu-
sion law was definitely settled by COM
munication sent the House.
The letter contains copies of the instruc-
tlons sent to collectors of customs by the
treasury department under date of May
4. They are instructed to take no steps
looking to the enforcement of the deport-
alton act until further notice. Under the
same date the attorney-general Instincts
attorneys and marshals not to proceed ex-
cept on an order OF court. With regard
to the Chinese who obtained admission to
the United States under false representa-
ton, the letter directs the officers of the
department to use every effort to enforce
the law by arrest and prosecution. A
copy OF telegram from Attorney Gen.
eral Olney is dated in September and in
structing the district attorney at San
Francisco, in view of tie fact that no
funds exist for the carrying out OF the
law to have Chinese who are held liable
to deportation, to be discharged from
custody until such provision is made.
The attorney general says these are all
the instructions, but in reply to various
letters of inquiry from district attorneys
he construed The order of May 4 as appli-
cable only to section 6 of the Geary act
and that the laws relating to the arrest
and prosecution of Chinese laborers who
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mitted Is to be vigorously enforced. He
says as only $25, 900 is available to carry
out the law of Sept. 9 be ordered deporta-
ton to be executed to the extent of the
available funds, and Sept. IL, in answer
to an inquiry of the United States mar
shall for Southern California, he stated
where writs OF habeas corpus had been
applied for Cinnamon could not be
deported pending appeal. The number
OF Chinese arrested and ordered deported,
the letter says, has not been furnished
the department by all the United States
attorneys. He had been informed, how
ever, that sixty eight Chinese were ar
rested in California and twenty-one
ordered deported between Sept. and
Sept. 20. Attorney General Oluey in his
statement does not cover all the corre-
spondence on file, but faithfully repre-
sents the action taken by the department
LIE lOuSc bllcu tOOk up tuc
bill. the pending amendment being by
Meikeljohn, of Nebraska, increasing the
price for composition from 40 to 80 cents
per thousand ems. 1t was lost.
Then Meikeljohn offered an amend
ment substituting the increase in rate on
composition to As cents per thousand.
Lost.
Morse, of Massachusetts, took advant-
age of the latitude allowed to make an
assault on Commissioner Lochren's
conduct of the pension office.
He charged the commissioner with
suspendine, without warrant, the law
giving pensions to soldiers. He charged
the pension bureau with issuing pensions
to applicants known TO be dead in order
to swell the list Of pensions granted with
cost to the government.
Cummings offered an amendment to
prohibit the public printer from selling
duplicate plates of public documents.
Lost.
After further discussion the House adj
journed.