The San Francisco call., 1897-10-01
JAPANESE MUST
60 BACK Home
Fifteen Hundred Waiting
at Yokohama to Come
to California.
Advance Guard of Sixteen From
British Columbia Ordered
Deported.
A Company Formed to Bring in Large
Numbers of Cheap Contract
Laborers. f..

United States Immigration Com mis-
sioner Walter 2. Stradley received yester-
day dispatch from Washington reading
as follows:
Commissioner Of Immig. alton, San Francisco,
CdL.s Appeal of sixteen japanese per sleam-
ship. Walla Walla from Victoria di missed.
DeporI in accordance with telegram OF 18th
o. L SPAULDING, Acting secratery.
I. V. PowDERLY, Commi, ,sioner-General
The Japs will be sent back TO Yoko-
hama on the City of Peking at the ex-
pense of the Government, and the Cana
dian Steamship Com pany, which brought
them from Japan, will be called upon to
make good their passage money. This was
a test case, it having reached the ears. of
the Commissioner that 1900 Japs with
similar contracts are waiting for the de-
cision. Had It been in favor of the six
teen this gang. with many more, would
embark at once for the United States.
On the 1st of August seventeen japanese
men ranging from II to 36 years of age
look passage on the steamship COptic
from Kobe. On their arrival at Yoke
hama United States Consul General Nc
Ivor discovered that they held labor con-
tracts with an emigration company, The
Emin kabushiki Kaisha, at Kobe, for
labor 10 be performed IN the United
fact on the immigrant list OF the Coptic.
and tae seventeen Japs were accordingly
denied further passage on the Coptc.
They, however. took passage on the
Olympia for Victoria, and when they az
rived al that port they secured certificates
from the Commissioner OF Immigration
there and came to San Francisco on the
w ALA Walla with a lot more. The six
teen were arrested at this port by Imml-
grafton Inspector Geffeney.
Commissioner SIradley wired an &C
count of the facts to the Treasury De-
partment at Washington aud received
instructions to deport the Japs, but at
the request of Funa Koshi, Japanese
Consul at this port, an appeal was
granted and the papers and translation
OF the contract were transmitted to head
quarters.
Mr.. Stradley called attention to the fact
that it was not likely that a company
would be organized for the purpose of
lending money to laborers without inter-
est, and have agents in this country to
look after them for The period of two years
for the small fee OF So. He suggested also
that the Japanese gentlemen in this coun-
try. who were TO act as agents, could not
afford to devote two years time looking
after a lot OF farmhands. Mr. Stradley
lay stress upon the fact that the arrested
immigrants declined to give the names of
the persons Who advanced them the money
for their passage ard also the names of the
agents. The agents were called for, out
did not appear, and the fact that they
were so mysterious in their actions was a
proof that they were sim ply employment
agents having the men under CONTRACT.
The attent ton of the department was
also called to the fact that the law speci-
ncaily commands the deportation of all
immigrants whose ticket or passage is
paid for by the money of another or who is
aSSiSfa0 nv hers tn m
The following Is a translation of the
contract:
With the object of rendering physical ser
vice in agriculture, by his own deed, in the
United States OF America, the emigrant Iblank
for namel. on one side, hereby appointing two
sureties and applying to Kosei Emigration
Company, and the said company, on the 9th or
side, accepting the applica ton, do mutually
to the immi gration:
Article 1.-The said company shall apply for
the emlgrants passport and make other neces-
sary arrangements with regard 10 the emIgra-
ton.
All expenses in regard to the emigration
and returning home shall be betrayed by the
emigrant.
Article HIN case the emigrant be unable
to support himself through illness or other
distress, in the place of his emigration the
agent duly sent by the said company shall
give reasonable assistance TO or undertake to
send him home.
Article III-The term of the present con.
which the present contract has been entered
upon
Article 1V-In case the emigrant under the
management of the said company be sent
home through the protection of II. l. J. ms
authoriues abroad, or ii he receives protec-
ton from the same, all the expenses incurred
therefor shall be repaid by the said COMPANY.
Article V-Each emigrant shall pay the
said company the sum of 10 yen about S5) as
the fee for making arrangements for the emf.
grafton.
Article VI-The emigrant and the said two
sureties shall be under joint obligation to
reimburse at once when claimed by said com
pany the expenses which shall have been
paid or made good by the said company in
accordance with the second and fourth arti-
cles of the prese Mt contract
Article VII-The two said sureties shall
guarantee goodness of the emigrant's be-
hav1or and shall be responsible for all occur
rences of the emigrants personal interest
In witness to Keep firmly each other the
above articles two copies OF the present con-
tract have been made. and one is taken by
each