The morning call., 1894-10-27
The Six Companies Show
Their Fangs.
WITNESSES INUNDATED.
Will Be Prosecuted Throughout
Chinatown.
ONE RESULT OF HARD TIMES.
The Forged Notwithstanding for
the Admission of Coolies
as Native Sons.

In that high hall on Commercial street
in which "The Con solidated Chinese Be-
nevolent Association, much better known
as the Chinese Six Companies, holds its
weekly meetings, an eGict was framed
last Thursday evening that will fetter the
national and the municipal governments
in their dealings with the Mongolisns.
The heads of the Six Companies then pres
ent ordered notice published throughout
the Chinatowns of the State warning Chi
nese to have nothing to Go with members
of their race who give evidence for the
Government ia cases involving the exclu-
sion or deportation of Celestials.
The mandate of the companies will no
doubt be obeyed to the letter, and wit
nesses who hereafter appear against their
counirymen will do so at their peril. In
formation of this proceeding reached the
Collector of the Port last night. who saw
at once what 1t portended. He has driven
the importers of Chinese laborers and
female slaves from one stronghold to
another until they have but two left.
Their chattels must be smuggled over from
Mexico or Canada. or landed at the sea-
ports as natives of California. and the
Collector is using every resource at his
command to drive them from their posi-
ton.
The coolies who are struggled over the
borders must be provided with certificates
of registration or they will be sent back to
China. For these false registration papers
must be obtained, and the existence of
5000 of these documents shows how the
slave-owners made preparations for vio-
lating the exclusion law. Inspector Her
lihy, who cane from Chicago when the
authorities at Washington learned of the
existence Of large number of bogus GER
tificates in this State, has gone to Los
Angeles, where the false papers are said
to be thick as leaves in VallomOrOsa. He
learned before his departure that they
were being prepared in this city and Port
land, and that a few weeks ago they sold
in Chinatown at $50 each.
The struggled coolie who obtains pos
session of one of these papers is reason
ably safe from arrest and deportation, for
the Government agents charged with the
execution of the exclusion law are not ex-
perts and cannot be expected to tell at
glance the difference between a genuine
certificate of registration and a clever
forgery.
Inspector Herlihy and his assistants are
laboring hard to find the makers of these
certificates, and it is intimated that he has
already obtained evidence that duplicates
Government officials as we'll as Chinese.
1t will be difficult task to exclude the
"naliye sons" The last Congress en-
acted a law giving the Collect of the
Port power to exclude any alien. II this
law is constitutional few native sons"
will land at this port; but the Chinese
hold that it is not constitutional, because
it takes from the alleged native the right
to petition the court for a writ of ha beas
corpus il he is refused the right to land by
the Collector A native" came to this
port few weeks ago and the Collector,
having obtained proof that he was a
fraud. declined to land him.
The Six Companies decided to make a
test case, and petiti0ned the District Court
for writ of habeas corpus on the ground
that native, and therefore a citizen, was
refused the right TO land in his own coun-
try. Two attorneys were hired by the Six
Companies to represent the native, and
their argument on the power of the court
to grant the writ was commenced yester-
day afternoon. District Attorney Garter
will reply this morning. If this writ is
granted, the action of the court will be
equivalent to a declaration that the new
law is unconstitutional. In that event the
case will be appealed TO the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals. aud il necessary
to the Supreme Court.
The bitter fight being made by the slave
dealers is an evidence of the hard times
| prevalent. They are no longer able to
supply the demands OF the corporations for
| laborers, and the employment of Chinese
| by individuals is decreasing. The Japa-
nese student is now the favored candi-
date for the housemaid's position.
Tie proposed treaty between China and
Mexico by which the latter was to give i'm
migrants from the former all the privileges
of citizenship is apparently as far from
ratification as ever. Yang Yu and King
| Owyang, who were sent from this city to
Mexico by the En- peror for the purpose OF
determining whether such treaty would
be advantageous TO the Celestials, have
reached the capital of the republic after a
toilsome journey from the Western coast.
King Owyang and other members of the
party are lying sick at the capital, the re-
suit of their journey through a fever
stricken section. They have sent no re.
port favorable or unfav0rabe 10 their SOW
ereign and when one is sent it is not ex-
pected to be in favor OF treaty.