The morning call., 1893-10-06
WISE WILL HELP.
The Collector to Lobby at
Washington.
VERY EXPLICIT IS HAMLIN.
Instructions at Great Length From
the Treasury Department as
to Disbursements.

So great Is the Interest taken by Collec-
tor Of Customs Wise In the McCreary SUBJ
stltute bill that he is going to washington
10 personally assist in the efforts to have
such anti Chinese legislation enacted as
will not fail Of the prohibitory purposes
Intended. With that In view he has OBJ
tanned six months leave of absence and
will start for the East Sunday night, stop
ping for little while, however, on ms
way at Chicago.
Referring to his dispatch suggesting an
ironclad definition OF the word "mer-
chant" he says there is one Chinese firm
in this city which has no less than seventy
five partners.
When he arrives at the national capital
he will be fortified by considerable data
on the entrance and exclusion OF Chinese
at this port for number OF years-data
which he has been compiling from the
Custom-nouse records for the past few
days.
The Collector qualified yesterday as
special disbursing agent. under Secretary
Hamlin's instructions, In a bond OF S1O 600.
His correspondence from the Treasury
Department yesterday was so explicit as
to leave no room for doubt as to his dis
bursting duties relative to the enforcement
of the exclusion acts. His formal appoint
ment by Mr.. Ham lin as such agent came
in the shape of letter of which the fol-
lowing is copy:
Sir: You are hereby appointed a special
dsbursing agent Of this department Tor the
receipt and disbursement of funds from the
appropriation for the enforcement OF the exclu-
sion acts. Your appointment as customs dls-
bursting officer not being applicable TO the ap.
tering upon the duties OF your office, execute
bond In the sum Of $4,000, with two sufficient
sureties to be approved by the department,
this appointment 10 take effect from taking OF
oath.
Another letter considerably longer ex-
planned his duties in detail and was also
accompanied by copy OF letter acting
Secretary Hamin had sent to Attorney
General Olney. In his correspondence
with Mr.. Olney Mr.. HamliD communicated
the inquiry OF Marshal K. c. Ware OF
Texas respecting the paying OF the ex-
penses of transporting the Chinese to this
city; and also copy OF tender OF trans
portaton rates made by Attorney d. A.
Chambers of the Southern Pacific.
ut is understood" writes Mr.. Hamlin,
"that the guards furnished by the railroad
company shall take the oath as deputy
United States Marshals and that the
deputy marshal selected by the Marsha
shall accompany the Chinese and maintain
custody of them until they are placed upon
O vessel at San Francisco, as the railroad
company will be relieved from further
responsibility upon arrival at San Fran
CISCO"
The railway company will furnish trans
portation at the Marshaps request, the
bills for such to be paid by the Collector
as we'll as the bills for the board of the
prisoners pending the sailing of the de-
porting vessel and the steamship fares.
The vouchers are to be certified to by the
Marshal.
The acting Secretary is very particular
that the Department of Justice shall not
sive Chinese upon the Treasury Depart
ment. The duties of the latter end with
the arrest of the Chinese ne explains as
follows:
AS this department understands the law the
Treasury Department has no jurisdiction after
It's officers have made arrests of Chinese and
placed them in the custody OF the officers OF the
courts. From that time until the final execu-
tion OF the orders OF the courts the cases are
wholly within the Jurisdiction Of the Depart
ment OF Justice.
The special appropriation for the en-
forcement Of the Chinese exclusion acts is
however, under the contro of the Treas
ury Department.
With more or less repetition Mr.. Hamlin
takes great pains to impress upon the Col
lector's mind that only three items Of ex-
pense are to be met, viz: the conveyance
of Chi ese after sentence to the port of de-
portation. their maintenance while await
ing shipment, and the cost of their passage
to Hong Kong. Only the actual aud neces-
sary expenses are to be paid. To add to
the explicitness OF his instructions re-
specting the custody of the Chinese, he
writes to the Collector in confirmation of
the telegram he recently sent TO him:
will ho hv
but must remain in The custody OF the Marshals
until such Chinese are deported.
The Collector is auth orzed to send in his
reQuisition for as much as $4,000, but no
more. Immediately, and for whatever costs
he has been put to pending his qualifica-
tion as disbursing agent he will be reim-
bursed.
According to Marshal Long. the in
structons which that official has received
apply only to Chinese under sentence of
deportation.
Marshal Gard of Los Angeles brought
another lot of sentenced Chinese-twenty.
five In number-to this city yesterday,
Five deputies accompanied him. The de-
pOrteeS have been gathered from San
Bernardino. Riverside. Los Angeles and
Bakersfield. Ten of them are said to be
highbinders. among them being the no.
torious Charley All Him. for whose arrest
a warrant was issued more than a month
ago, and who has been in hiding ever
since. In Los Angeles he is considered
the principal representative of the Chinese
Six Companies, and he has reputation as
jury and witness briber.
The new Chinese Consul, Chang Ting
Jea, accOmpa MED by Vice-Consul King
Owyang, made the rounds yesterday of
the several departments here with which
he has to do. His reception was very
cordial.
There are about 300 certificates Of regis
tratoh at the Internal Revenue Office
awaiting Chinese applicants, says Deputy
Collector McComb. These certificates have
been lying there for some time. Fear of
their own countrymen and belief that
the Geary act would not be enforced, kept
the applicants from putting in an appear
ance for them, but now the registered
Chinese are beginning to come in and