New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-01
TO TEST THE GEARY LAW.
CHINESE WILL NOT REGISTER.

FUND RAISED TO FIGHT TIA CASE TO
BE MADE.
The Cinnamon Of this city and It's suburbs are de.
termaned to fight the Geary law. That law. which
will 20 into force May s. requires that every
Cainaman, other than tourists, artists, accredited
officials of the Government and their staff. ana stu.
dents. who are residents In this country regis.
ter before that date they will be sent back
China. The application to be signed is as follows
. Chinese -, hereby make application
the Collector OF Internal Revenue for the District Of
certificate Of residence under the provisions
of Congress approved May 8. 1892 and state
that arrived in the United States on the day OF
- IS. ut the port Of -. per -. and that
lawfully within the limits Of the United States residing
ct -. the Fifth day OF May. 1892. That
was years on my last birthday and that my present
local residence is ct -. and my occupation Is -.
further state that true Photographic likeness OF
self Is anHxed to this application.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this - day Of -
1s9 - Deputy Collector Internal Rev.
enue District Of
Note-If the applicant sign his name in English
Il Is preferred that be should do II he cannot sign
In English let him sign in Chinese characters the Deputy
Collector In that writing the English equivalent
beneath the signature If applicant write
his name at ell let him make his mark In the usual FORM
10 this application must be attached the afhcavit
Of two persons, who must confirm the applicants
statement. General Michael Kerwin, Collector Of
Internal Revenue for the Second United States Dis
yesterday. and said: "Up to the present not half
dozen Cinnamon have registered here, and there
disposition the part OF this people to comply
With tile law. The Six Nations who rule the Chinese
throughout the country have sent out orders that no
Is to register. The Chinese, though conforming
to our laws, and who the whole a hard working
and most lawabding people, entirely Influenced
BY the rulers Of their own Here in San Francisco
and every large city where there is big colony OF
Mengolians. they elect their own mayor and officers
and implicitly obey their orders With regard TO this
registration, have had the matter carefully explained
to the Chinese, and large number have visited me
here in my office. They seriously object TO having
their photogN pls taken and many Of them say that
Is not fair to discriminate between them and such
undesirable immigrants the low, dirty Russian
Jews and other scums Of population that nre dumped
here from Europe. But the fact Of registering and
Identification ought to be welcomed by these men,
Every man when he takes ont his citizens papers has
to MI out form very similar to the we ask
ing the Chinese to sign. Many am sure would reg
stsr but they afraid Of their names and pictures
getting into the papers and the vengeance of the six
Nations
"As the matter stands now, they subscribing
literally toward o fund to fight the law, and have
already In this city and vicinity raised about 100000
On May . Chinaman is to be arrested. The legal
representatives Of the Chinaman, who in this city will
bs the firm Of Evarts Choate q Beoman, will imme
diatsly demand his deportation. The order WILL Ct
course, be made. and writ Of habeas corpus will be
Issued, the prisoner will be remanded and the matter
win be referred for final decision to the United States
Supreme Court"
JOSIAH II. Choate at his office, No. SO
Wan-st and said that his firm had been retained by
the Chinese Of this city, As a Is ar
rested under the Geary law he said and is ordered
BE- o. s ha ssss na {, ont the v
decision whether the law is constitutional or not
the secretary. Wing Lux said that the Consul had
nothing to say on the subject.
In Mott, DOyers and Pill sS.. which form the
Chinatown Of this city, the few Mongolans who could
be persuaded to speak did not seem to be much put
i've weeks hence. They ridicule the idea that the
United States will ship back to China the many hundred
thousands OF their cOuntrymen who scattered over
the United States.