St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-16
EFFECT OF THE DECISION.
No Money to Deport the Almond
Eyed Individuals

| No Money to DepOrt the Almond
| Eyed Individuals.
WASHINGTON. May 15.-No orders
had been issued at the treasury depart
ment at the close of business today as
| to the deporting OF Chinese under the
Geary act. The instructions under
| which collectors of internal revenue
! and United States marshals are now
| operating direct them to make no ar
| rests of unregistered Cinnamon until
| further orders. These orders may be
| given tomorrow after the cabinet meet
| ing, or deferred for longer period.
Secretary Carlisle, soon after he heard
| OF the decision of the supreme court,
went to the executive mansion and had
a conference with the president Oh the
| subject. He remained for an hour or
| more. Attorney General Olney said
until the line of action to be pursued by
our government was mapped out he
| could say nothing on the subject, except
| that the department of justice had no
money available for deporting Chinese.
Conservative estimate places the
amount necessary TO depOrt the unreg-
istered Chinese at S6,000,000, with only
Sl6,306 available for the purpose. In
tlmationS are heard that congress may
be convened to consider the matter.
The suggestion is made in official cir
Giles here that Chinese, unregistered,
may now go to the courts and ask to be
allowed to register and remain in this
country. In any view of the case treas
ury officers expect to experience great
difficulty i'll carrying out the mandate
of the law that Chinese must CO." They
look to the cabinet to solve the problem
at its meeting tomorrow.
AT the Chinese legation the Chinese
minister courteOuSly declined to express
any opinion upon the decision of the
court, or to give any intimation as to the
course his government might deem
proper to adopt under the circum-
stances. He especially declined to say
anything upon the retaliatory policy
of ordering tile expulsion of Americans
from China referred to in San Fran
cisco dispatch this morning.
Henry May, counsellor TO the Chinese
legation, said that the contest against
the law will doubtless be transferred to
congress when 1t meets in the fall.
Under present conditions it will be i'm
possible for the officials to execute the
law literally, because there IS practi-
cally no money with which to carry its
provisions into effect. Mr.. May called
attention to the fact that an effort was
made to secure the insertion of an item
of half million dollars in the appro-
priation bill for the purpose of enabling
the executive authorities to carry out
the provisions of the law; Mr.. Holman
antagonized and defeated it. The con-
sequence was that congress appropriat-
ed only $4,000, the sum heretofore
annually provided with which to depOrt
the Chinese who might unlaWfully Sc
cure entrance into the United States
and be detected. 1t was an unfortunate
and deplorable condition of affairs, he
said, which threatened the existence of
the peaceful and peaceable relations of
China and the United States and left
hundreds of natives OF each country in
the territory of the other, practically
hostages of each other.