The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1893-11-30
TREACHEROUS CHlNAMEN.
THEY SILL REFUSE TO REGISTER
AND ARE EVADlNG THE LAW.
Will BE DEPoRTED.
1t VIII Cost Ten Million Dollars to Depart
All the Celestials, but the Money
WIN be Forthcoming.

( WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 27. =
The treasury department is some
what copcerned over the prospect Of
Chinese registration under tue nesST
law bearing upon that subject which
it passed upon eve Of adjournment
of the extra session, and under
which the department has just is
sued regulation. The supposition
is the Chinese will comply
with the law, but no one
can say definitely until the expert
ment is tried. The officials them
selves are as much In the dark as
any one else. The only experience
they have had with the Chinese is
against the supposition. There has
been no reason to suppose they
would refuse to register under the
Geary act, but they did refuse, and
when it came to applsing the law
they defed it openly and went into
court upon eonstitutionality of the
question with all the temerity Of ma
tive Americans. They attempted to
use the law with usual
Chinese shrewdness to get a few
aged people deported to China free,
but otherwise displayed stolid in
difference to their fate. When they
received the final verdict of the
courts, which was against them,
they then applied to congress
for stay of proceedings in the
shape Of an extension OF time in
in which they might register. In
making this request they made no
actual promises, although they held
out some inducements which led
congress to believe they would accept
the terms Of the law. Negotiations
were conducted by the Chinese
legation in Washington, and it
represented that in refusing to regis
| ter.the Chinese residents acted un-
der the advice of eminent American
counsel, and at the ms ance of the
powerful Six Companies, and the be-
lief was expressed without a specific
promise if they were granted the ex-
tension which they asked they
would be much grati6ed.
1t was upon this repre-
sentation the administration
took up the cause Of the Chinese,
and congress granted the extension.
1t was of course possible the
question of deportation had some in
fluence upon the decision of the
government and also upon CON
gress, and it is probable also there
was feeling that public sentiment
would be strongly aroused by the
wholesale arrest of Cinnamon
throughout the country un.
der the provisions of the Gary
act, which in some quarters was
considered harsh. Almost month
has elapsed since the law went into
effect and no test of the temper of
the Chinese has been made under its
provisions.
Instructions of the department
under which federal officials are to
act have pow been prescribed, and it
is to be presumed no great time will
be permitted to elapse before
United States marshas and other
officials throughout the country
will be informed as to the conrse
they are expected to pursue towards
the Chinese. If they again refuse to
comply with the law the situation
will be awkward. Estimates made
by the treasury and Judicial depart
ments places the costs of deportation
OF all the Chinese ia the country at
mething over 5000, 900, and
there is but little money available
for the purpose. Congress will, in
all probability, be in session
when the vexed question will be de-
termined and it, of course, will be
appealed to for an appropriation. But
with treasury receipts falling be-
hind expenditures az the rate of $5,-
900, 600 per month the question of
getting money would still be a
puzzle and it would doubt
less require some hard
pressing to get the necessary funds
appropriated.
Pacific coast representatives who
have taken the greatest interest in
the question say, however, the
money will be forthcoming and there
will be no more temporizing.
1t is said intelligent Cinnamon
generally did not object to registra-
tion, aud really looked upon
it as means of personal protection,
but the bulk of them will be con
trolled by employers now as former
ly. They do not, as race, take
kindly to having their photographs
taken for this purpose, but there is
no reason to suppose this objection
will long stand IN the way OF com
plianee with the law if the Six Com
4 panies aud attorneys be not obdu-
rate.