The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-10-11
WENT THROUGH HONOLULU.
THE DEPORTED JAPANESE on
THE PEKING.
Gigantic Fraud Discovered by Com
missioner Stradley-S Severe Blow to
the Traffic in Coolies to the States.

While the City of Picking lay an
chored at her dock on Saturday, SIX
teen Japanese coolies were guarded
lest they should escape. These men
were being taken back to their coun-
try. having been deported from the
United States.
The Japs will be taken direct to No-
kohama and the CANADIAN Steamship
Company will be called upon to make
good their passage money. They are
the first lot of batch of 1900 Japs
who conspired to land illegally in the
United States.
Commissioner General of Immigra
ton Powderly took the initiative in
the matter and promptly dismissed
the appeal of the japanese.
So immigration Commissioner
Stradey has at last succeeded in the
blocking of the entrance of some ia
panese contract laborers and has APP
parently gained proof of "A gigantic
scheme to unload "A lot of coolies in
California. The first batch of sixteen
sent to San Francisco by new com
pany in Japan will be deported and
1900 more. who are said to be in Io-
kohama waiting for a final decision in
the case of the sixteen will probably
not attempt to go to the United
States.
On September 10th sixteen Japanese
arrived on the steamship Walla Walla
from Victoria. Commissioner Strad-
ley and Inspector Geffeney ascertain
ed that they were contract laborers,
as they had suspected, and for the
first time, were able to get evidence
to stop the influx of contract labor
ers destined for the farms of Califor-
MIA.
The men left Kobe for Yokohoma
on the steamship Coptic and at Yoko-
homa United States Consul McIvor
found out that they held laborers'
tracts with a japanese emigrant com
pany known as the Emin Kabushiki
Kaisha, to perform labor in the Unit
ed States. and quickly cancelled their
permits to land in the United States.
The Coptic officers thereupon refused
to carry the Japanese coolies as pas
sengers, but they took passage in the
steamer Olympia, which brought the
party to Victoria. There they secured
from the United States Commissioner
of immigration certificates permitting
them to land. but when the sixteen
arrived in San Francisco on the Wal
la, Inspector and Interpreter Godfrey
found that they were those who had
started for the United States on the
Coptic
AS the department had ruled that
the certificate of the Commissioner of
Immigration at Victoria held good
unless new and direct evidence was
obtainable Commissioned Stradley tel
egraphed the facts of the case to the
city of Washington, and having refus-
ed the Japanese the right to lana
granted them an appeal to the Com
missioner General of immigration on
application of Funa Koshi, the Japa-
nese Consul in San Francisco.
The papers in the case and the
contract found on the laborers were
sent to Washington on September %.
Commissioner Stradley reported that
the contract was a yelled one, but that
it was sufficient to show that the men
were contract laborers. Upon exam
ination the japanese refused to give
the names of the agents who were to
take care of them in this country or
to answer any pertinent questions,
saying that they had been told not
to do so. Commissioner Stradley held
that there was sufficient evidence that
the men did not have enough money
to buy their tickets and that there
fore they We're assisted 'emigrants,
and could not land legally.
The contract that has been the
means of at last exposing the big
fraud in regard to the importation of
japanese contract laborers as trans
lated. is as follows:
With the object of rendering ply
steal service in agriculture by his own
deed in the United States of America
the emigrant (blank for name) on the
one side hereby appointing two sure
ties and applying to Kosei Emigration
Company and the said company on
the other side accepting the appica-
ton, do mutually enter upon the fol-
lowing contract with regard to the
emigration:
Article |. The said company shall
apply for the emigrant's passport and
make other necessary arrangements
with regard to the emigrant. All ex-
penses in regard to the emigration and
returning home shall be betrayed by
the emigrant.
Article ,. In case the emigrant shah
be unable to support himself, through
illness or other distress, in the place
of his immigration, the agent duly
sent by the said company shall give
reasonable assistance to or undertake
to send him home.
Article 3. The term of the present
contract shall be three years from the
date on which the present contract
has been entered upon.
Article 4. In case the emigrant un-
der the management of said company
be sent home through the protection
of II. |. j. MS authorities abroad. or
II he receives protection from the
same, all the expenses incurred there
for shall he repaid by the said com
pany
Article ). Each emigrant shall paw
the said company the sum of ten ven
(about $50 as the fee for making the
arrangements for the emigration.
Article G. The emigrant and the
said two S1iretieS shall ha ,,n1,,