The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-17
THEY WILL BE DEPORTED.
The Registration Law Says They
Must Go.
WARRANTS ALREADY TO SERVE.
The Six Companies Aid in Locating
the Highbinders-The Raid Will
Be Made Tomorrow.

Tomorrow the full force of United States
Deputy Marshals. augmented by large
number of special deputies and assisted by
both the police force and Deputy Sheriffs
of the city and county of San Francisco,
will sweep down onto Chinatown armed
with warrants for the arrest of more than
200 Chinese.
The McCreary act providing for the reg
istration Of Chinese laborers and the de-
portatiOn Of those of the MongolanS who
fail to comply with the law, has not yet
gone into effect 80 far as the Offering to
Chinese Of an opportunity to comply with
its pro visions is concerned Internal Rev.
enue Collector Welburn has received no in
structions as yet to open an office for reg
istratiOn under the new law, and even If
the instructions were to arrive from Wash
ington to-day, it wo uld take him fully two
weeks to arran &c for the work. Upward
Of 100 clerks will be required who will of
necessity have to familiarize themselves
with the blanks and routine of the work
OF registering Chinese before they can en-
ter upon active duty. Interpreters will
have TO be provided, since eight out OF the
ten Chinese who will want TO register will
be unable to either understand or speak
the English language. Inspectors will
one little things now uDthought of will
have TO be provided for so that any state
ment to the effect that the Bureau of Chi
nese Registration can or will be opened to
those who need to use it before the first Of
the coming year is sheer nonsense.
But the swoOp to be made upon China
town Tomorrow is in no way connected
with the registration OF Chinese. 1t will
concern only Chinese who cannot register,
no matter when the Office for registration
be opened. II will he. in other words. a
round up' of Chinese criminals, those
who are already branded as felOps.
The McCreary bill amended. or prac-
ticaIly repealed, all of the sections of the
original registration law-the Geary act
except one. The section which was left
virtually unrepealed is section 6 OF the
Geary law. which follows. and the contem-
plated raid tomorrow is based upon that
portion here wiih given:
Provided. that no Chinese person heretofore
convicted IN any court of he States or Terri
tories of the United States Of a felony shall
b permitted TO register under the provisions OF
this act; but al snch persons who are now SUBJ
ject to deportation for failure or refusal To com
ply with the act 10 which this is an amendment
shall be depOrted from the United ates as In
said act and in this act provided upon any ap-
proprae proceedings now pending or which
may be hereafter instituted.
Ali day yesterday United States District
Attorney Garter and bis assistant, Mr..
"OlhSQ upOu the IOIu Vi COD-
plant to be used in cases of Chinese ar
rested for deportation because of convic-
ton of a felony. Chinatown is full of
ex-crminals. as is proven by the long list
of names furnished the United States
District Attorney, together with the
nature OF the crimes committed for which
convictions were secured, and all the other
necessary data to prove the record of the
cases in either the State or the United
States courts.
This list. with the location of the men
wanted. has been furnished principally by
the Chinese police detectives. secretly or.
gained some months ago by the Chinese
merchants and the Six Companies in their
efforts t. rid Chinatown of the bighbipd-
ers. Every felon has been located, and
gigantic as the task may seem is being
watched until such time as he may be
arrested by the Federal authorities. All
that Will be necessary to prove in any of
these cases to cause the deportation of the
man or woman is the record of the court
showing his or her conviction. Over two
thousand arrests are to be made, and the
majority of the Chinese taken into custody
will come from the ranks of the tongs or
highblnders who have so long terroriZed
the Chinese merchants and worried the
police.
There will be no delay In their deporta-
ton. The identity of the man or woman
proven, all that will remain will be to read
the recnTu OF MS OF ner conviction and
back TO China he or she must 60 by fir,t
steamship. There is no alternative. The
law is clear and emphatic npon the matter.
and all the registration offices from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific or the Canadian
line to the gulf will avail them nothing.
They are felons and must leave the coun-
try at once.
Every precaution has been taken to pre-
vent the escape of the felons wanted.
Most OF them can be easily identified by
photographs taken when they were ar
rested or after their Incarceration in the