The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-02-19
The Willy Chinese Have Found a
Loophole in the Gsary
Exclusion Act
Registration Certificates Are Put
on the Market in San Fran
cisco for Sale
Discovery Of = scheme Of Powerful Com
binaiion OF Chinese smuggiers to
Defeat the Law.

{ istfhuon. Inc ofuor comes from tnc ran
Francisco Offices OF the six com panies. shat
powerful organization which runs celestial
Affairs IN the Unitsd States. This reRistra-
tion IL 90 take place under the Geary Law.
and from the shape things have now as
sumed IL seems apparent that not only will
the spirit OF the Law be defeated. but It's
own terms usei 10 nullify 1t and 10 open
the way TO gross frauds. With San Fran
cisco as the national market plnos for
Chinese labo-. Denver as the nearest Tolnt
IL TO be used 90 help a certain powerful
combination OF Chinese smuRglers 20 cary
on their buoinssa. Under the Gsary law
all Chinese laborers who we're In the United
states prior 10 MAY .. 1892, must
register or leave thS country. The
cove nmtnt agioes to pay the sT
pense Of sending depo ted China-
men home. In registering. the ap. licants
are required TO furnish a photograph Of
themselves of certain Dimensions. the pic
tore TO measure one and ono-haif inches
from the hair on the head to the chin.
These oerthoates Of registration are then
10 be retainsd by the Chinese and exhibited
as license to remain in the United States.
or 10 land bore In the event OF their taking
trips homo at any time.
No one not possessing such certificate
OF registration lie to DO ne mittsd 20 land in
the United States and by this means IL was
hoped by the framers Of the Gesry bill that
Chinsse immigration would DO effectively
stopped. Ga the contrary. however IL ia
now claimed that IL Ia worse than inopsra-
tive In that u admits Of wholesale snug
CLING and may cost the government vast
su@s Of money millions, ssnding home
Chinese who really possrhs certificates Of
registration.
II is 20 assist In this fraud that
the Denver contingent and others
have been ordered 60 register with
oil haste and send their certificates on
TO san Francisco. There they will Le
shipped over 10 China. sold 10 coolies deH-
tined for this country, and thus the bars
lot down entirely. A dispatch from ran
FrsnOiEco Announces that these certificates
are already vofth much money ana that
within little time they will bring 500
apiece.
The idea o. sending 10 Denver aud else.
where for certificates Is but a paft OF = gen
eral programme which Is to be carried out.
Other citiea which contain Chinese IN any
eonsiderable number will In due time re-
csiye similar orders. No penalty attaches
70 fraud In this connection. A Chlnhman
may apply for and receivs rs many duph
eeAch OF MS ctTlluCabo as he may CHOOSE 20
demand, and ~ tns worst he can only meet
with refusal. There 10 no fine or I'm
priaonmsnt attached 20 violation Of the
law. ChinamAn who gets his certificate
tomorrow may sell 10 TO the smuggling
6Tm Ia San / nsisco the next day and IN
dsfRo no punishment. IL will DO 40 cas-
matter to got another ChinRman into the
United States on the atrG myth OF the fraud,
either by finding man over there who re-
sembles the photograph, OF by placing
anothes picture entirely a. on the oertih-
cate.
The law only applies 10 lsborers, and
none Others. and So lar ns the laboreTs
themselves are concerned they now exhibit
the greatest Rlee over its te me. Every one
OF them expects fres trip home when be
gets ready to leave. The act provides that
unregistered laborefs must all he deported,
and the VOID "laborer' is used IN a wide
sense. The act reads that;
"ihe wofds 'lAbore,' or lAborers' whe e.
ever used In this act. or in the act TO which
this Is an amendment. shall be construed
10 mean both skilled and unskilled manual
LAHORE = including Chinese employed ia
mining, fishing. huckstering, pcddling,
iaundrymen, or thoe0 engAG ed in taking
drying or otherwise prese wing she'll or
other fsh fof home consumption OF expor
tation.n
IL 10 the ambition of almost every China
man who comes TO this count that one
day he wilt return to the land OF his birth
place. Now he sees bow he can get home
free OF all cost TO himself. All lie has TO do.
even anting be has certificate Of regis
tration with him. ~ 10 90 10 q nsighho ing
CITY ant get some TRINA 20 notify the au-
thotities that ho is not registered.
UniteI States official wno seen In
ieVard 10 ths possible fraud arising under
the enforcement Of the oct saIl;
AT q - we could not discover why the
Chinese declined 20 register Then we
hu
time. but still declined 20 register. Now
We learn there IL 10 be a wholss 10 egistra-
tion OF eysry one " them.
The law lie good one so far a. ID goes,
only Il does not go far enough. IL eveTV
Chinaman registers tomorrow and sends
bis certificate 90 China the next day to hol
bring over a coolie. we cannot touch him. |
do not sar IL, but 10 Is my belief that We
could b. forced 90 issue another bAtoh of
certificates.
Fortunately for the national treasury
the deportation clause of the act is not
being eniorcoi because ! am confident We
would have 10 paw the fare OF ever China
man 90 China who wanted to 20. 90 say
nothing OF paying their rail- Dad IA
from roints east Of the coast. They could
ensily give rs the clip az san Francisco.
judg nR ON the tricks they PLAYED on
the Gu tom officials 50 far.
The photograph which appears on the
certificate Is about ~ useless ne 70 eau we'll
be. We keep duphcsts - them in this
Office. but DO not suppose We would ever
have occasion 10 refer 10 10.
NO, on the whole. 4 can see no good in
this Law as ~ stands to-daI, with absolutely
no preventative clause an the share Of a
hno or imprisonment for fraud. and hon
estlY do not expect ever O. see the deport-
m mt clause enforced"
la order 20 Get she Chinese IN every town
the depnty collectors are making n tour OF
the stats aud announces their advent by pro.
claiming 90 ali Gu nnmen that the time IN
which they may register will expire May 3.
1884.
Having formally made his application,
John Is required % prove by one witness
that he IL telling the truth. and 20 furnish
two unmouniel photographs OF himself
One OF these will be pasted upon a certih-
cate aud F8tu nee 20 him. be other IL
lHetsd uEon % duI lionte certificate and hlad
away for future iefe' encr. Not that future
reference would be possible. as Il Il next 90
impossible 10 index q Chinese register. be-
cause 81 the general prevalence Of the com
mon namss OF trade. none Of which are
genuine. bat merely handles adopted 90
that the untTa.neI Ams loan tongue cgn
srtsulsts them.
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