The morning call., 1893-05-19
ONLY FOR POLICY.
Cleveland a Friend to the
Chinese.
BUT HE FEARS CRITICISM.
And So There May Be a Pretense of
Enforcing the Geary Exclu-
sion Act.
BUT HE FEARS CRITICISM.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

WASHINGTON. May 1S.-Great pressure
Is being brought to bear upon the Presi-
dent by churches interested in Chinese
missionary work to induce him to suspend
all further execution of the laws against
the Chinese un:ilCOngress meets and ex-
tends the time for registration. Especially
are the Presbvterian clergymen, now hold
ing a conference in this city, engaged in
this work, but there is also an influence
being brought to bear upon the other side.
The labor organizations are beginning To
petition the President by telegraph. and
kilograms from the Pacific Coast have also
been shown him creating the impression
that the Dem ocratic party's prospects out
there would be forever ruined if the law
were not enforced.
4 Congressman said to-day: 1.-THE
President is desirous of impressing the
public with the fact that he is not Op-
posed to the law, but that if it be not en-
forced it is on account of lack of money to
pay the expenses, and as it is absolutely
impossible to accomplish the full intent of
the act or even the measurable enforce
ment of it, the suggestion of wisdom might
be TO simply put the act to sleep and let 1t
remain in a condition of somnolence until
Congress should have chance to take fur
ther action. The President is of the opin-
ion that if this view could but be fairly
presented to the country there would be no
further disposition to criticize the admins
tration adversely, but the trouble is that
any delay would be taken advantage of by
the opponents of the Democratic party and
would be gloated over as proof that the
administration is determined to avoid its
duty. Out Of all this doubt and discussion
of conflicting views it is possible that
some new order will issue as a matter of
policy, involving a pretense of enforce
ment."
Assistant Secretary Curtis. who sue
ceedS General Spaulding, will nave charge
of immigration affairs. and it is said to-
night that few arrests will be made of
Chinese here and there, and that they will
be deported just in order to make it ar
pear that the law is OF being totally ig-
nored. but that the administration is do
ing the best it can under the circumstances.
But this need not persuade Pacific Coast
people into believing that the administra-
tion is friendly to the law and anxious TO
enforce it. Ii that was a fact it could be
easily demonstrated, for there is now
SIC, SOC available for the purpose of depor-
taton, and with this amount nearly 500
Chinese could be sent out of the country.
On July next there will be S25, 900 more,
making in all $50. .609. for which amount
over 1000 Chinese can be sent from San
Francisco to Hong-Kong at the rate of
SS5 per head.
AS the supervising special agent of the
treasury has moro than once pointed
out, by making these wholesale arrests.
the people of the country can be made to be-
lieve that the law is to be honestly en-
forced, and in no other way.
f. Lingle. commissioner from Canton
TO the Presbyterian General Assembly, is
telling Washington people that he has the
gravest fears for all the missionaries in
China, and especially for those far inland.
who will be wholly at the mercy of the
Chinese mob. He said: 81 was never par
ticularly molested, only having had few
stones fail dangerously near my head from
mysterious sources and once when we
were coming down the river, after spend
ing whole afternoon in rubbing vaseline
on the sunburned shoulders of coolies,
overhead them talking about the ex-
pediency of killing US and throwing our
bodies into the river that night.
Yesterday l met Chinamaa On the
street and I spoke to him in his native
tongue, asking bin what he was going to
do about the Geary law. lie said he was
going to do nothing. / told him he would
have to do something or else be sent back
to China. but he secuted that idea, saying
it could not be done, because there were
'heap too muchee Chinamau.' ,"