The San Francisco call., 1898-12-07

pany H, First New York; November 2l CHARLES GRAVES, aged 21, Com pany c, Twentieth Kansas; NoVem- Der 25
 B. M. BEARDSLEE, aged 21, Com pany F, First New York; November 26.
 ALFRED WELLER, aged 19, Com pany l, First New York; November 26
 E. A. BAILEY, aged g, Company B, First New York; November 26.
 The transport Pennsylvania sailed for Manila on the 16th, the City of Puebla on the 17th and the Newport on the 18th. The city of St. Paul arrived on the 18th. all well on board and will probably sail this evening or to-mor row.
 The United States laws in regard to Chinese immigration have been put into practical effect by Commissioners Joshua K. Brown and came into opera tion for the first time on the arrival of the Belgic. Hitherto under the Ha- Waiian law, return permits to return af- ter one years absence have been grant ed to Chinese laborerS who have re- sided in the country 9 certain number of years Git now is seven years), and no further qualification was required. MT. Brown notified the Chinese Consul and the Chinese bureau of the Foreign Of flee that return permits could only be granted under United States laws, which require the laborer to be the possessor of 5000 worth of property and a family. This disarranged all previous arrangements, the notice being given the very day the steamer was in port, but matters have been satisfactorily ar ranged by the return of the permit money by the Government to those who could not comply with the law. This ruling will naturally have an effect on the Chinese labor market for no laborer can make 5000 out of his three years contract at $15 a month, with more than half that amount expended for his rice alone, and S36 is deducted for return passage. The result will be either that the men will remain in the country and rehlre, as they are doing, at higher wages, from SIS to $20 a month, or else they will leave the country for good and all. If the restriction laws are as faithfully administered in the future as they have been in the past then Chinese immigration to Hawaii has practically ceased, for by the terms of their contracts and the law nearly all of which will expire within eighteen months, the laborers must either work at agricultural labor or leave the coun- try.
 AS regards Gallician laborers on strike, 1t was ascertained that twenty one of those who signed their contracts All <Auol1td WSlG JuQEe WILCOX accordingly released them from their contracts and they returned to the plantation to work as day laborers They now want eight hours a day labor instead of the usual ten hours. The other striking twenty-two were again taken before the Police Judge for again declining to work. They were sent to jail at hard labor until they were will ing to complete the terms of their con- tract and they are now working on the roads and they claim that they prefer this labor, with three good meals a day and kind treatment under the jailer, to plantation labor, and can afford to wait for three or four months in the hope that the United States will abolish con- tract labor entirely.
 The engagement has been formally announced of Major Davis, chief sur geon of the United States Military Hos pital here, to Mrs. Charles L. Carter, the widow of the MT. Carter who was shot at Diamond Head at the opening of the emeute of 1895, and who was one of the most promising of our young lawyers and local statesmen. The an- nouncement was made at a dinner at which President Dole, Colonel Barber and other prominent people were pres ent.
 One of the principal figures in the sensational failure of the Pacific Bank