The morning call., 1893-04-27
JOHN MAY LINGER.
Deportation Fund Almost
Consumed.
COSTLY PRELIMINARY WORK.
If the Geary Law Be Sustained Only
About a Thousand Chinese Can
Be Sent Back.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

there seems to be no great increase in the
registration of Chinese Assistant Secre-
tary Spaulding of the Treasury was asked
by The CALL correspondent to-day whether
an attempt would be made Immediately
after May TO arrest Chinese in any great
numbers and deport them to China. Mr..
SpaIldng stated positively that that would
not be the policy of the department
There will be no wholesale arrests" said
he. "There will be one or two arrests made
for the purpose of furnishing test case
before the United States Supreme Court.
which is expected TO hear the arguments as
soon as possible after May O."
Chief Justice Fuller said to THE CALL
correspondent that he expected that a test
case would be made and tried before the
adjournment of the court. The usual time
for the adjournment is about the middle Of
May. He said, however, that Solicitor
General Aldrich, who will represent the
Government and contend for the c0nstitu-
tiOuallty of the exclusion act, would be better
able TO say definitely about the time the
test case would be brought before the court.
Solicitor General Aldrlch being seen. said
that 1t was his understanding that arrests
of Chinese would be made in New York On
Nay 6, and the case ould come up in the
Supreme Court on the 8th or 9th. He did
not anticipate that the arguments would
consume more than day or two. He said
that he would represent the Government to
the best of his ability, and Messrs. Choate
and Evarts of New York would appear for
the Chinese. The decision of the court is
expec ed to be handed down on the Monday
following, which will be May 10.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding said that
of course if the exclusion act be decided
unconstitutional by the highest court in
the land the Treasury Department would
have nothing further to do with the Chinese
already legally residing in this country,
although the same precautions would still
be taken to prevent Illegal entries Mr.
Spauding said further: Even if the ex-
cusOu act is held to be constitutional Pm
afraid there will be little money left to
deport the Cinnamon"
Al the correspondents request. however,
Mr.. Sparlding directed one of the officers to
go through Tie books and ascertain exactly
now much money is left out of the S1O0 600
appropriation made for the present fiscal
year. The figures were asceTtained TO be as
follows:
Amount expended up to March 81 last for
, ,registration purposes, S10.313
Amount expended fer salaries of special
treasury agents. travelling expenses and de-
portation Of Chinese up TO March 81 last,
$50, ,5S6
Amount (ostimated) required for registra-
ton purposes for the last quarter Of this
fiscal year, $4,000.
Estimated amount required for the salary
of twenty-one special agents Of the Treasury
Department Tor he last quarter tniuety-one
days, at s3, 81, IS aud Sc per diem each),
S7G9i.
Travelling expenses and expenses of de-
portatlOn estimated for the last quarter of
this fiscal year. S6G00
In other words, there had been spent for
all purposes on March 81 last tile sum of
SG3. 800. aud it is estimated that OH June 30
next Sl9,294 more will have been spent,
leaving balance Of S16,S sec out of the
100000 appropriation.
For the last fiscal year there were 175
Chinese deported. and up to March 81 of
this year 14S had been sent back
Supervising Special Agent Tingle, who
furnished these figures, was asked how
many Chinese he could deport for SIC S06.
BE said that, of course, it all depended
where they were shipped from. In one
case it had cost $1,000 just TO ship three Chi
nameD from a point in New York STATE to
San Francisco. But this occasion was made
sort of junket for three deputy marshaIs
who accompanied the MongoIians They
rode in Pullman palace cars and did not
care for expenses.
The usual cost for the passage of a Chi
nese from Puget Sound to Hong Kong"
said Tingle, us $50 per head. and from San
Francisco S35 per head. The appropria
inn fnr n
comes available July l next and this,
added 10 the balance we expect to have on
hand. will make S66, sos. But it must not
be supposed that all this can be used for
the purpose of depUrting Chinese. Former
laws authorized the regular corps of special
treasury agents or Chinese inspectors to
watch the borders and prevent the Illegal
entry of Chinese. These officers are paid a
per diem, and for the year ending June 80
last this expense was about $4,000. Esti-
mating that the same number of men will
be employed for the next fiscal year at the
same per diem, there would only be about
S36,000 for the purpose o. cepor,ng Chi
nese.
AT S35 per head we could ship about
1851 Chinese to Hong-Kong. But the best
way would be TO charter ship especially
for the purpose. We ought to be able to
send three or four shiploads back for s26.-
600. When the Chinese see that the Gov
ernment means business they will be sorry
they did not register. and if Congress Will
then extend the time for registration. [
imagine they will most all apply for certifi-
Gates. But 1t will be time enough to dis
cuss this when we shall have heard from
the Supreme Court"
Mr.. Tingle says that considerable num-
Der of Chinese have been coming through
Havana, Cuba, and it is believed that some
one in our Consulate there is conniying at
this fraud. 1t has been reported that Chi
nese have paid $50 for each certificate. GER
tifying that they belong 10 the merchant
class. The Chinese Government has EN-
powered its Consul at Havana TO issue car
tifcates, and these are vised by the United
States Consul there. About all that is
necessary for cody to have Is a silk suit
to make him look like merchant, student
teacher or traveller, and $50 TO bribe some
attache of the Havana Consulate. Thus
prepared, he does not find it hard to pass
the customs officers at New Orleans.
Mr.. Tinge says that a Chinaman was
arrested at New Orleans recently, and upon
his person was found three suits of cheap
clothes, such as are worn by coolies, in add-
tioh 10 an OUTSIDE SUIT oil SIX, in which he
was passing himself off as merchant. 1t
was supposed that he was not only wearing
his own clothes, but those of some OF his
Chinese cOniederates.
Some time ago Economist Holman ad-
yanced the idea that our naval ships might
be employed in the work of Transporting
Chinese at little expense, if it was decided
by the Government to deport them by the
ub bol sola na l.,
very good use to put our navy to, as it was
not required to do any fighting
II would like to see these Dandy jim
naval officers work a little," Mr.. Holman
was reported to have said when there was
proposition before Congress to send naval
vessels with provisions 10 the starving
Russians. II would like to see these pretty
officers handle few pork and flour bar
relS"