The San Francisco call., 1898-09-03

cured eI, You need to be concerned no longer. ,.1S Mo year, 7th month sth day. August 2s, Here follow the slips referred to.
 Lem Yuk of Lung To- Heung Shan is to say he has no brother-in-aw and no maternal un- cie' so as to avoid much questioning.
 Lee Lun of Shook Kan Nam Hoi District is to say he has no brother-in-law and no ma ternal uncle: that his father died some six years after his return to China, which would now be about ten years ago.
 Be prepared to answer accordingly
 Wong Wan of the San Wui District Is to say he has no brother-in-law and no maternal un- This will avoid bad breaks.
 lion Quai Ho female) fathers name An wing; mother s name, Low Gum.
 Ng Jung of Min Fan, Row Kong District, is to say he has only one father and one mother no brother-in-law and no maternal uncle; that his father died some twelve or thirteen years after his return to China, which would be now about four years ago.
 Remember this computation of dates and 1t would be all right.
 On one of the envelopes was the address in Chinese:
 This important letter to be immediately taken to the Mail dock-to the immigration shed, above to be delivered to Tai Tai Min.
 Thomas D. Riordan, defending shew Hon, strenuously objected to the reading of the letters or to their use as evidence lie raised the point that on the admission or the District Attorney that one of
 
 no ofense had been committed and that therefore the case against his client had no foundation. Commissioner Heacock overruled the objection, and decided that the letters were material. The case was then taken under advisement
 Chief Meredith of the Chinese Bureau was asked later in the day whether he was aware that copies of the testimony taken for the use of the bureau had been furnished to the Chinese brokers or persons representing them. He re- piled that such could not have been the case. The testimony is private, and no one is allowed to see it except the members of the bureau and the Collect or of the Port.
 .It is under my charge" he said, land keep it locked up in my desk, the keys Of which l alone have. When a steamer arrives with Chinese on board one of my inspectors and shorthand report CT, either Mir Hoyt or Miss Lissak, go there with the interpreter, and the Chi neSe are questioned. Their statements are transcribed into long hand and are handed to me. l keep them until they are needed for use in the examination of the Chinese witnesses from town. This is an important matter for the discrep- ancies between the statements of the wit nesses summoned from Chinatown and the statements made by the immigrants on board the steamer often prevent their landing. The only other persons hand ling these transcripts are the inspectors who take them to Chinatown in making their investigations"
 MT. Meredith expressed the belief that the writer of the letter to Tai Min had inserted the significant matter about the testimony for the purpose of in- ducing Tai Min to believe that he, the writer, had access to the testimony and could land him.
 Special Agent Moore of the Treasury Department has been at work on the case for several days, but declines to re- veal what he has discovered. For the same period of time Collector Jackson has been unusually serious, although in the best of health, and has not told any of his celebrated after-dinner jokes This Is portentous, and there Is no doubt that he has received information ponting to an eruption In the bureau in the near future