The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-10
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VICE CONSUL GOO KIM OBJECTS
TO METHODS.
Letters Touching the Administration
of the Exclusion Act Have Gone to
Washington and to Sewall.

The Chinese consul has sent letter
to Special Agent of the United States
Sewall and Minister of Foreign Af
fairs Cooper, making diplomatic in
quiries as to the administration of the
Chinese exclusion acts at this port,
particularly in relation to his own eX-
perience in connection with the Gae-
lie yesterday. Another letter went for
ward by the Gaelic to the Chinese
minister at Washington, in relation
to the same matter.
The facts of the matter which the
consul takes exception to are these.
He, together with his English speak
ing secretary, and Vice Consuls Goo
Kim Fui and Wong Kwai, went to the
Pacific Mail wharf yesterday forenoon
to see the Chinese aboard, one of
whom is connected with the Chinese
legation at Washington and another
is prominent merchant. The passes
which they had were those issued be-
fore the enforcement of the United
States laws, and the customs guards,
acting under orders, refused to recog-
niZe them. After some delay, howev-
er, the consul and Vice Consul Wong
Kwai were admitted on board. Vice
Consul Goo Kim Fui was not. Later
in the day these same Chinese officials
we're refused admittance to the wharf
or vessel when they came with their
friends to bid the latter good bye.
These things, it is claimed, are in de-
rogation OF consular rights and dig
nifty.
In regard to the matter Collector
McStocker said:
I'VE are administering a law which
was not framed with the conditions
that exist here, in view. We are try
ing to administer it with as little fric-
tion and as little Inconvenience as
possible. But certain fixed facts
must be borne in mind. Under the
law no Chinese has "A right to land
here except upon Identification and
proof that he is one whom the law al
lows to land. Our inspection is for the
purpose of receiving and acting on the
proof and Identification offered I'm
til we have rejected it, there can be
| no occasion for communication with a
! consul. Experience at other ports in
the United States has proved the alb
solute necessity of allowing no com
munication between Chinese seeking
y
until this inspection and examination
is made. Hence the rule that no Chi
nese shall be allowed aboard or even
on the wharf until the inspection is
made. Our own experience Yesterday
proved the same thing. A Chinese
went alongside the ship in boat and
was conversing with the Chinese on
board before the inspection was made
| could have arrested him on the spot.
| let it go with a warning.
strictly speaking, after our ex-
animation is completed we have no OBJ
lection to Chinese going aboard. But
when he is aboard he cannot be allow
ed to land without producing proof of
his right to land, and it is no part of
the duty of the customs employees to
be spending their time identifying in
dividual Chinese.
81 believe Goo Kim claims it is part
of his duty to get the names of Chi
nese subjects coming here. He can
get that pnotficially from the steam
ship agents, officially from the custom
house, and as to what disposition is
made in each case, only from the office
of Mr. Brown. He does not need to
go aboard the steamer for that.
1--WE are simply administering the
law. That the law touches national
pride and Inconvenience individuals
is to be regretted. 1t is all summed
up however in remark a Chinese
made yesterday.
THE japanese, he said, do not have
all this trouble
NO I replied, because they have
treaty giving them the rights of the
most favored nation
IF we had the right kind of gov
ernment, he answered, we would
have that kind of treaty, too, and
we will have such government
some day"