The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

very peculiar mistake He sent Tor m spector Gavan, took him into his pr1vate office in the bureau and showed Gavan ., two T letters in Chinese one of 9an tneln This This will be distinguished in this story py the name of the Gavan letter.
 Now said Meredith, insinuatlnglyec you are not able to swear which one or these two letters 1t was that you took from Brown. It was this letter, wash | it, that you took?" indicating the wrong
 "No,' replied Gavan. 'it was the other letter."
 "How do you know?" persisted Mere dith. You can't read Chinese.
 the part of the chief of the bureau went on for half an hour. Finally TGavan endeo the interview, to the dismay of the. pu- reau chief, by saying: "I know that the letter you don't want me to pick out IS the one l found on Brown, because l put my private mark on It and here IL lS; Besides that l have had copy or ae Inae letter made in case that the eVluenSe might not be destroyed by the loss or the original. i-s,, ing passes to attorneys and hlgnplnoeI9 to visit Chinese immigrants on the steam tisasa CTS, and at the mail dock one ot ,,a [ie1 at passes called for the admission or the s,ite I torney. two highbinders ana aif tbe eN bighbin- ders nor of the white men, other ae elsn.i si If lawyer, were mentioned m the .p p@isSo io ryver directed Inspector OLeary 10 pass pas" I1bi11e So-and-so (giving his name), t"o
 men and one white man. ,oa,oa eo
 The matter of letter passing became eU fragrant and notorious that 3u, ,1o Is 6eT- TT. Smear in JuIy issued an order that no Pel5 P5 Tnits to visit Chinese should be recoslil1zTTu 1T unless they bore his 1ndorseneLt' WI, an Spear conceived it to be ms uuty +ba officer of the Customs to see '1elo Iacl,snn lave were enforced, but Collector Jdch9oet thought otherwise, and day pr lmo oseas s, terWard issued an order that @ aIi p1;zad W fxah "a issued by Meredith were or to p9 fbe snIb off, ciaI When MT. Spear called upon .tsar,'oed tnS lector about the matter ne was II Jarsion according to Collector Jacksoh not MT. of the interview, that 1t was eso,o1 llUt nar Snaar,s duty to interpose an olllcia, ;eSS Uss1 info the Chinese importation puslllI pIrsl1r fo such duty being confined a,i eAciuSlfS nf which himself and the SMaradifh ShlnedSifh os is the the head
 Since that time only one WIlltSn taI, p a6 stE, has been issued, and that was siSi11od Sad to B. Jerome" but Chinese are @ +bav please visit immigrants as often as tneS Phejng o, oiai. as ,-- if n1eases Meredith, they peinS @ nassed in by Meredith persondly. fnr inc arrangement is an excellent olS olS94+o,1 ,.ac oooiia hrokers. for there is no wrltleL wrltlIa5 o- ord of these visits, the persons Vlsiteu it oi the number and identity or me +ha chief
 These methods on the part or tne ,,CIioo cnLeo of the bureau. all saNoaInIih saNIlsihle in a large dee-rea for the increased numpeT o1 @ Sii. neSe contract laborers ana le"o ,.otiith into this port SluCO IT took charge of the management ol tac hureau The way to enter IS easier i IIidll if was under the administration or lse, when Dick Williams was reputeo 70 HdSe made between $50, 600 and $60,VOo py the traffic in Chinese. c,...,,o 1rol,ers
 It Is well known that Chinese prokedds ed are willing to pay $500 each for the a9- nission of Chinese female slaves, ana tnls fact is backed up by a statement recently made in the Presbyterian Mission py Chinese slave girl, who said that sne nad M paid her owner $270O cash per year for fhree years. The price for admitting Chinese contract laborers ranges rom s5O to s1OO each During MT Wise's ad- ministration. when the immigration was much lighter than it is now, Chinese slave girls were admitted at the rate of twenty per month. At $500 each, this ds would mean a corruption fund or Slo,oVO per month, or S192, 900 per annum, sum more than thirty-eight times the annual salary of the Collector of the Fort.
 Collector Jackson admits. that Mere dith was a total stranger to him when he appointed him chief of the bureau: Mer- edith receives the same salary that he did when he was a customs inspector namely s4 per day. Why the Collector should select total stranger to resist corruption fund so large is a problem that would require a longer period than the holidays to solve. Even the multpllca- tion of three thousand Chinese by fifty dollars per head makes a fund that re- quires a strong four dollar day man to nNA