The morning call., 1893-11-08
THE CHINESE ACT.
Belief That Registration
Can Begin.
A Financial Stringency Which May
=: Be Overcome by Workers Will
- ing to Wait for Pay.

alt was learned at the Office OF internal
Revenue yesterday that the neglect Oh
Congress before adjourning TO proVlde an
appropriation to meet The expenses OIL reg
istering the Chinese under the new law
will not stand in the way of the work.
: There are plenty # men who VIII I'M
dertake the,work and wait for their pay"
observed Chief Clerk Youngberg'
ANOTHER gentleman connecteu Win the
office said:
>"Secretary Carlisle IN MS reluctance to
give out any information lfom the treas
urv Department has not been consistent in
his STATEMENTS as TO the amount of money
on hand for he Chinese work. The money
which was set apart for deportation will
be applied now 10 registration. 1t is be-
tT.oan $1,000 and 600. 1t would re-
ouire about $1,000 a month, at least, for
This Office. and Sacramento would need
about as much. There are many other
nIacrs. some of them more or less remote.
which viii nave to be considered
The records show that S15.7 40 was re-
uured for the San Francisco office alone
the last time.
Attorney Riordan of the Six Companies
thought also that the failure of Congress
10 appropriate money should not stand n
the way OIL registration.
IF Congress has not made any appro-
priatlOD," said he, "the expense should be
covered by the Internal Revenue service
Altogether the Treasury Department had
about $4,000 set apart for the enforcement
of all Chinese Observation-Disclosures act,
exclusion act and the Geary act-and that
money should be devoted to carrying out
the present law"
will the Chinese register?"
They will AS soon as the Internal
Revenue Office netifies US that they are
ready the Six Companies will instruct the
Chinese to register"
The internal Revenue Office has not yet
received any instructions, however, from
Washington.
MIR. RioTdSn was asked what action
would be taken if the Chinese now con-
fined in the Alameda County and Broad
way JallS as depOrtees were not soon re-
leased. There are nearly 100 of them al
together, most Of them from Los Angeles
he said:
Il have waited now two days to give the
MarsnatS an opportunity TO release them,
and II they DO not do something by to-
morrow l shall notify them that they will
be liable. fer false prisonment"
why do you not begin habeas corpus
proceedings?"
We'll, habeas corpus proceedings in the
Federal courts are very expensive. II
would cost US $1,000 But we don't need
70 the law SAYS they should be released. I"
District Judge Morrow has not yet acted
upon District Attorney Garter's application
for an order of release, aud no application
has yet been made TO Circuit Judge Me
kenna.
Judge Cornelius a. Hanford, who pre-
sides over the United States District
Court Tor Washington State. and against
whom mandamus proceedings in the
United States Supreme Court have been
threatened for refusing to grant the appli-
cation for naturalization about two months
ago Of a Seattle Chinese. Louis King, is
new a this city on court business.
Judge HanfOrd bases his refusal TO
grant the certificate upon section 2169 of
the. United States Revised Statutes, as
amended in 1875, and upon Circuit Judge
SawyeI's decision Of April %. 1873, in the
All ! up case.
:: Judge SAWYER held that, under the
all4e nded section. no MongoE born in
China, was entitled to become a citizen of
= this cOHntTy-that such a Monaghan was
not white person" within the meaning
of:tha term as used in the naturalization
laws of the United States.
-. y Gtice of the application for leave TO
file a IL otion for writ of mandamus has
BEEN setved upon Judge Hsnford by the
aBp1lcaht's- counsel, G. Z. NJ. Pratt.
Sol icit0r- General Maxwell will of course
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