Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-06
CHINESE IN COURT.
Proceedings to Test the Constitution
allly Of The GOary Law.
THE FIRST ACT OF THE Play
demanded 10 be Deported.-The bnS''
ness Of Smuggling Them Ill.,
gTalk of Resistance.

lated tnc OuihNto -, ~.
tJI,,v 10 register as required by ,hs
iw walked into United States Marsh"'
Iacobu,, office 10 this city this morn
lac mud were Immediately placed uh'
der arrest. Their names are WONG
ouap. iaborer, No. 4 Mott street; Les
dos. costumer, 27O2 Third avenue, anu
Fong Yue Ling, No. Mott street.
They voluntarily surrendered them
selves by the advice Of eminent law
vers. ia order to test the legality OF the
Chinese exclusion act. They We're
takon into the United States dlstflc'
court where Judge Brown was tittlnB
prepared TO near two of the cases. Inc
aLse OF Fong Yuo Ling was brought
bpfore United states circuit court,
Judge Lacombe.
The case OF Wong Guam was hrst
chilled. The chief lawyer Tor the
Chinamen, Is Jos. ii. Choate, nnd
with him Ia Thomas ID. Riordan,
counsel for the powerful Chinese Six
companies at Ban Francisco, which are
defrnying all the expenses o. the test
cases. RlDrdan came here from ssn
Francisco two weeks ago.
United States Dlstrlct Attorney
Mitchell appeared to prosecute,
TnrouEh an Interpreter Wong Guam
admitted that he was n lab0rer rest
,..tt IN tho United States on May 5th,
1892, when the Geary act became law,
anu that he had not applied for
certificate OF reeidence ms re-
qulred by the law; nor had no
troubled himself ut all about II and he
had no excuse to offer for not doing 30.
uls LAWYERS appeared ns anxious rs
Mitchell TO have him noJudged guilty
OF violating the law, aud Judge
Brown remanded him 10 the custody
OF the United States marshal to DO d''
ported TO China.
Leo Goes case was then called.
II Offered from Wong. Quan's
inasmuch ~ his lawyers said no was
without necessary certificate through
unavoidable cause" but net able TO
prove 10, by any white persons, nor
was he able to show by any white per.
son that he was In the country on
May 9th, 1892, as the law requires.
Accord ng to the Genry law, when
Chinamnn applies for registration tho
collector Of internal revenue may re-
fuse TO register him, unless ne
shows by reputable witnesses that ne
was entitled TO the protection that
registration guarantees. III al mo emu
Of the year a Chinnmnn sui remains
unregistered no Ia liable 70 arrest,
when hc then must prove by o. least
one reputable white citizen That ne
resided In luis country prior TO the
passage OF the Chinese exclusion nct.
Lee Goo had applied TO the Internal
revenue collector on April ii,
but was refused registration on
the ground that Gay mamie,
the Chinese Interpreter, "nom Sno.sc
.an,ia,na,U VIVA moi In the opinion OF
The collector n reputable witness be-
cause he wns Chinamhn. 1uuse
Brown signed the papers ior the eApui'
ni0n OF Lee Goe.
The third case was that OF fon8 ue
Sing,an Americaniz.u Chlhanahn VINO
wears neither blouse nor cue. he was
not taken BEFORE JuuBe BLOWN put
before Judge Lacomo VINO also oraefeu
the prlsonerdeported 10 Emma
In all three cases counsei appheu
to Judge Lacomb ior wtlt OF haoese
corpus which was denied In nceoruance
with the pIe-arranged plan Oh couhsei
on both sidop, aud counsel taen gave
notice OF appeal 10 .he supreme Souf'
OF the United STATES ,..
This three Cinnamon were aum,.s se
10 baii IN the sum OF sovv cnen ~n,en
was procured by representative q ,no
Xix companies. The cases, the us
tilc' attorney salu, WIN ~ yy nu "
n.Y, Wadn,sasy' The proceedinps
ware closslv wai l,d by Yueng Kui, a
memb.r n, ,he in.se legation mt
WashIn,,on n, NV Vic. Consul
wing' tSis citv.
sMuooiiN THEM IN
r.co,,, w.st NAV inves.
,i,a,,or hy ,ha Js,ioer shows the exIst.
nnaa ~ ~ ,,aen,Ic consn,rney 10 smug.
VI. chi,.as s,n,n he iTnitsd States
go. 1aosa,an pac,rc steamer ms
~ y ,ss n,n,a,,, a nerd. Of Cbip.sa
M. nmnhs, nnbi,cIv reportei
s,aa,'s.s 4. ,fund 10 hs less thar
Sal, p,nnah,v on,v ans third of The
ac,,,. n,,,Ir nj. .mnress nj Lamar
rsuar,an Ana a., ayrlyaa with Inoo
Chinsso ar,, s M" into Nh. unItci
States an narn,ana oS n hundred nnJ
twentv.aYs ao,ls,a eaeh. sixlv OF
which are paid to the officials for keep
are smploy.a alany the iine Of The
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