The record-union., 1897-08-15

took their departure from China or ia
pan, not from Canada. AS well, said
he, might it be contended that a man
travelling from New York to Washing
ton through Baltimore, departed from
Baltimore. The goods did not appear
in the Canadian reports of exports from
Canada, nor in our reports as imports
from Canada. He cited as an analo-
gous statute the law requiring the de-
parture Of Cinnamon "to the country
whence" they came.
Constituting that statute, the Attor-
ney- General has decided that the words
from whence he came" mean their ul-
innate country of departure (China),
unless the Chinaman had been natural
lied by the Dominion Government It
would be strange, indeed, said Mr.
Hamlin, if the country through which
he came should be considered the coun-
try from whence he came. And so with
goods in bond. 1t was their place of
shipment, not a point en- route which
must be considered. He spoke of the
contract labor law as Offering another
analogy. Laborers unlawfully coming
to the United States must be deported
by the carriers to the places whence
they came"
Mr.. Hamlin also devoted some atten-
tion to the Cape of Good Hope statute
to show that the object of those dis
crimina ting duties was to compel direct
trade with the United States and elm
mate the profits of the middle man.
Mr.. Hamlin argued that the statute,
as shown by its history, related only
to vessels, and ventured the assertion
that it had been placed in the statutes
at the instigation of vessel owners. To
this, however, the Attorney-General de-
INJURED, saying he understood that Sen
ator Elkins was it's author. And if
/ vessels only were meant, why, he asked,
was contiguous territory mentioned?
Mr. Carlisle at this point interrupted
to urge that the word vessels wheth :
er for our ports or those of contigu-
Gus territory, qualified the whole Sec
ton
In conclusion, Mr.. Hamlin spoke of
the vast Importance of the construc-
ton of the statute. It would require
an hour he said, for him to begin to
tell Of the interests which would be
! affected by an adverse ruling. And
4 though such a ruling might ultimately
| be reversed by the courts, the ruling
/ itself would do an immense amount of
/ injury. The West, Northwest, North
and Northeast, he said, were just be-
/ ginning TO wake up to a recognition of
/ the far reaching character of this
question. He asked that those opposed
/ to this suggested taxation be given
i the benefit of any doubt.
! Joseph Nimmo of New York. who is
/ connected with the Bureau of Statis-
/ tics, asked to be heard, and went into
/ a lengthy review of the subject 1t had
I been a war of the transportation in
/ terests of the United States and Can
/ ada since 1S4S. Canada had, he said
deported herself. not only as a Gov
ernment. but also as a railroad and
/ canal corporation. She had built the
Canadian Pacific at a cost of S215, ,000.
/ 600 To divert American commerce from
I American ships and American rail-
roads. He confessed that he did not
know how this controverted clause had
got into the statute, but he thought il
was cunningly devised to stop the pres
ent evil.
Mr.. Carlisle, who had been called into
the case only last night in closing the
hearing, said that if Section - did not
apply only to the vessels he agreed with
Mr.. Hamlin that the words "came
into meant imported But he con-
| tended that the whole statute related
only 20 goods imported in vessels OF
the United States" The old statute
did not meet all the requirements. While
it imposed the discriminating duties OF
cargoes in vessels not Of the United