The San Francisco call., 1897-10-02
FORTY Chinese
COME ASHORE
Mongolians Other Than La
borers Admitted With.
out Restraint.
A Large Influx Of the Privii-
legged Glass Of ORR =...-.
entails. I. !.
Many Merchants, Tourists and Stu
" dents Landed Under Section 6
:*.. :. Certificates. s. =.

- Forty Chinese merchants, students,
tourists and "other than laborers' have
been landed by Collector of the Port jack
son on what are known as asectien g. GER
tiicates"-in other words, certificates is
sued under the provisions of the treaty
between the United States and China
made and ratified in 1894. -...-:..
The certificates certify that the bearer,
whose photograph appears. upon the face
of the paper, is merchant, a student, a
tourist, or any other thing not falling un-
der the efinition of laborer. The seal
OF the Government of the country. of which
the applicant was last resident must ap-
pear upon the certificate, and part of it
must appear upon the photograph of the
bearer, so as to prevent The removal of the
photograph and the substitution of an-
other. The certificate must be vised by
the United States Consul resident at the
port of debarcation. If the certificate is
regular in form and If the photograph and
description are those of the holder the i'm
migrant, under the terms of the treaty,
must be landed-all Chinese other than
paupers, criminals and laborers being en-
titled to residence inthe United States:
The forty Chinamen en- just landed by Col
1ector. Jackson held certificates issued it
Macao by the Portuguese Government
and Vised by the United States Consul at
that port. Because the papers were in the
Portuguese language, and not in English,
the Collector refused to allow the holders
to land until he was forced 10 do so by or
der of court. In an interview with CALL
reporter yesterday the Collector made the
following statement: :-:<. 80 =
e: "The treaty provides that persons 9th er
than laborers shall have certificate from
their own Government or the Goyernm en- t
of the country in which they last.resided,
vised by the diplomatic or salaried repre-
sentative of the United States in the coun-
try or port whence the Immigrants
depart. That treaty was passed in 1894,
the terms being arranged by MIR. Ores am
and the representative of the Chinese en-
pire. Il was ratified by Congress and pro-
claimed by President Cleveland. The ex-
clusion law of 1884 provided that the GER
tificate emitting Chinese person to land
must be in the English language, but the
treaty passed ten years later does not say
anything about language. -.
There is a Portuguese settlement in
China called Macao, just as Hongkong is
British settlement and from Macao this
party of Cinnamon came with certificates
IN the Portuguese language. l declined
to admit them. They made an arrang ge-
ment with the steamship company that
. they should be boarded here ull III they
had time to send back and get their GER
tihcates exchanged for new ones IN the
English language. They were Kept here
for that purpose from the 26th of June
untifyesterday. -. " -. -.
tin the meantime there came certiti-
cate in English signed by. the Governor OF
the province Of Macao and yised by The
American Consul, Wilson G. Hunt. That
OF itself was sufficient to have admitted
them; but in order to avoid al doubt and
uncertainty in the premises l admitted
one of them and Immediately caus ed hIm
to be arrested and brought. before the
United States Commissioner to be tried
as to his right to be in this country. The
Commissioner decided:
The contention is here whether the certfi.
cate, being originally written in the PorIu.
guese Language. instead of the English Ian.
guage, is sufficient
"Then he cites article 8 of the treaty.
which shows that they may produce a Ger.
titicate, without specifying the language
in which the certificate may be written OF
printed. Then the Commissioner goes on
TO say:
The treaty having been made subsequenttc tc
the approval OF the act of July, 1884, the said
article not requiring the certificate TO be lin
the English language or specifying in what
Language 1t shall. be written..I hold that the
TACT OF It's being written IN the Portuguese
language is wholly immaterial, and more:
over, 1t will be noted that the language of the
article is that the applicant may prod Ice a
certificate. / am therefore inclined to the
opinion that a. Chinese subject OF the class
mentioned in article 8 would be entitled to
enter the United States without being re.
quired to prod uce such q certificate l there,
lore find that the defendant is entitled to
enter the United States and 10 be and remain
therein.
81 therefore admitted all the Others ii
continued Collector Jackson. They pro,
ouced certificates in English, butthey d i'd
not need to have them. 1t was out oi
abundant caution that made them gel
She English certificates, and caused them
to undergo an expense of $500 for board. -
Inspector Meredith, head of the Chinese
bureau, said that the certificates were all
In order and that the description and
photographs were those of the holders
There was no evidence to show that they
were laborers.
I'VE must depend upon the United
States Consuls in foreign ports to make
the proper ipvestiga ton before they wise
the certificates" he said. I'VE cannot gc
over there and do it for them.''
There are now waiting on the Doric l54
Cinnamon, OF which number 127. are fol
San Francisco. OF the San francisco
bound contingent forty are from Macao
with merchants certificates. From two
OF these. Chan Yak and Choy Cheong. In
spector Lynch took away the certificates
as they had been here before and were
registered. A writ of haheas corpus viii
be obtained for them and The contention
will be made that though they NAV hay.
been iaborars years ago they NAV hay,
become merchants since, and on the
further ground that they must be ad
mitted on the certificates.