The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

tangled up than ever. The consul en-
ployed some private detectives (Ameri-
cans) TO shadow the See Yups, and final
ly TO break into their quarters and destroy
several thousand dollars worth of prop
erty. Then there was music in the air.
The See Yups invoked the aid of California
state law for protection of their proper
ty, prosecuted the detectives and landed
the chief of the agency in jail. They Sc
cured an order from Judge McKenna, who
was then on the United States circuit
bench, restraining the Chinese consul
from interfering farther with the men,
bers of their society, and also boyeotted
the sam YupS in fine style, thereby caus-
ing them great financial injury. Then
the Sam Yups played a trump card.
Through the Chinese consul they report
ed their side of the story to Minister
Yung Flu, at Washington, who in due
course laid the whole business, so far rs
he knew it, before the Emperor
of China. Tnereupon his Celestial hlgn-
ness, according to the cheer
full custom of his country slash
ed off the heads of a few coolies treated
some of his courtiers to baths in boiling
OIL, arrested all the relatives of the leading
See Yups in China and confiscated their
property, and issued the terrible ukase
that should any See Yup venture to return
to the Flowery Kingdom he should be di-
minlshed in stature exactly by the length
of head. Among the innocent relatives
in peril of decapitation are the four sons
of Lee Took, one of the richest among the
visitors to Washington. 1t is to save the
necks OF their kinsmen, without paying
to the emperor their weight in gold to
soothe his lacerated feelings, that these
multi-millionaires are here, pleading with
the minister to intercede in their behalf
Their visit to the legation of the Golden
Dragon Tuesday was a revelation in the
matter of Chinese etiquette to the half
dozen journalists-your correspondent
among the number-Who managed TO sc
inside. The ten rich merchants, in sken
garb so gorgeous that the Queen OF Sheba
would have turned green with envy coul6
she have beheld them, with their seVera
Interpreters and attaches, fell fiat upon
their faces, in true Oriental fashion, the
instant they entered the minister's pres
ence. Mr.. Yang Yu, dark and sinister,
the expansive smile so familiar in Wash
ington society all gone from his fat counte-
nance, sat in solemn state and much be
dragoned brocade on an elevated dias in
the throne room. He did not remark to
his visiting countrymen, as you or
would have Gone, get up, gentlemen
and be seated" and so the luckless So
Yups had to remain PROSTATE, full length
on the floor, during the entire interview
only raising their faces just high enough
to articulate when addressing the minis
lect as Mr.. Yu the conversation had to b,
carried on through interpreters, which pro
longed the interview unconscionably, I'm
til the backs of the spectators ached TO
the millionaireS, abased two long hours II
the dust. OF course we could not under
stand a word that was said in either Chi
nese dialect; but through Mr.. j. c. Camp
bell, of San Francisco, attorney for tn,
delegation, we learned that the See Yups
informed the minister of injuries received
at the hands of the Sam Yups, and tina
through the unjust misrepresentation oil
the last-named order, they-the innocent
See Yups, found themselves in serious
trouble, both at home and abroad; and
they begged his serene highness to inter
cede with the emperor to remove from
them the ban of his diSpleaSure. But Min
lister Yang Yu did not soften the least
little bit. His final verdict was that the
See Yups must first call off the boycott from
the Sam Yups; next, dismiss legal pro-
ceedings in the courts of California against
the Chinese consul; then disband their So
ciety altogether; and last but far from
least, pay into his, gus hands a fabu-
lous sum of money, to be used-so he
said-for expenses in having the imperial
decree against them removed. When the
merchants hear it they Whacked their
faces on the floor in dismay. They protest
ed that it was impossible for them-only
ten men-to disband a society of more
than 10000 members; and as for the vast
amount of money demanded, to raise it
would be to ruin themselves and their
descendants, root and branch, forever
The minister was very angry. His queue
trembled with wrath TO the tip of its horse
hair addition, and the slanting Sits in his
countenance which answer for eyes mar
rowed to a line of greenish fire as he dis
missed his troubled countrymen with the
words: ''You should not have formed a
sion. The laws of America have nothing to
do with you. You are Chinese subjects and
you must obey me- or l will make it worse
for YOU in China" The attorneys are
now trying to induce Mr.. Yu to view the
matter from an American standpoint If
he remains obdurate, it is understood that
the state department will be called upon to
interfere in the cases of Lee Fooks sons,
now in prison, all four of whom were born
in this country, unless the emperor takes
time and the boys by the forelock and
shaves their heads before Secretary Sher-
man gets in his word.
Last night famous banquet was given
to the visitors by Tuck Cheong and Com
pany the leading Chinese merchants of
Washington, in the rear Of their store on
Pennsylvania avenue. The strip of red
bunting which waved in front of the place
advertised to the resident Chinese world
what was going to happen, and never was
business so brisk with Tuck Cheong ana
Company. All day long, and all
night, too, the neighborhood was
swarmed with pigtails and par
ti-colored costumes, for the instant
the hum blest washerman beheld that scar
let symbol, he bethought himself of some
pressing need in the way of merchandise
and FASTENED thereto, ostensibly to make
the purchase, but in reality to feast his
| olfactores on the delightful smells of cook
ing eggs two centuries old. birds nests
stewing for soup, toasting sharks fins,
chop-suey, and other longed-for delicacies
which this benighted land Of their exile
| does not supply. But though a multitude
| crammed the place and "devoured" the
! feast with eyes and noses, only fourteen
set down at the table.
A look into the interior of the dim,
| queer store, and especially a sniff of its
odors was like taking a peep into the
| Flowery Kingdom-the throng Of admiring
| loungers, the favored few at the feast in
| gorgeous robes to which Solomon and all
his glory couldn't hold a candle each
oriental nabob with a skull-cap atop his
queue adorned with the carnelian butt on
denotlng rank. The banquet was served
| in thirteen courses, the meats and sweets