Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-02
MIR. now DUCKS CHAMPION.


by United States officials, and
later, allowed to land by virtue of
an amendment of Treasury De-
partment instructions forwarded
to officials here, finds a ready
champion in the Advertiser as
does anyone and everyone whose
statements give that organ au OPP
portunity to condemn Washing
ton authority and the man or men
appointed by Washington depart
ments to carry out orders in Ha-
waii.
The tissue Of misreprese tation,
used by the Advertiser in it's
championship of Mr.. How Ducks
cause, is not worth detailing. 1t
is merely an exhibition of petty
personal spite which finds no re-
spouse other than condemnation
among the people of Hawaii.
Statement of fact, as relates to the
action of Federal departments is
not to be found in the editorial
remarks of Mr.. How Ducks cham.
pion.
Mr.. How Duck was among the
Chinese who arrived from China
in the steamer Coptic of last Jau-
uary. Mr.. How Duck and his
compatriots held return permits
issued by the Hawaiian Govern
mept. The Advertiser seeks to
represent that it was within the
province aud power of the United
States Chinese Inspector j. X.
Brown to allow these men to land
The malicious character of this
misrepresentation is best evidenc-
ed in the fact that the explicit in
structions received by Chinese
Inspector Brown and the local
customs officials are matter Of
public record.
The instructions under which
Chinese Inspector Brown and the
customs officials acted we're exact
in detail, and left no lerway for
him or any member of the Hawai-
ian Government to use their per
sonal discretion in dealing with
the Chinese coming to Hawaii.
The instructions given j. X.
Brown, the customs officials
and the government of Hawaii
contained these pointed para
graphs:
"The acting Attorney General
in the communication referred to |
also expresses the opinion that The
language of paragraph 8 of the
so-called Newlands Resolution,
enacted by Congress aud approx
ed July 7, 1898, makes applicable
at once the Chinese exclusion lars of
this country to The HaWaiian Isl
dnds, and that the diverse provi
sions of the laws of the Hawaiian
Islands regulating and restricting |
the admission thereto of Chinese, |
in so far as they are
inconsistent with the terms of the
80 called Newlands Resolution,
must be held to be inUalid and IN.
applicable.
"A copy OF The opinion of the
Acting Attorney General referred
to is herewith transmitted for
your information, and it is rec
pectfully requested that steps may
be taken to acquaiut the existing
Government of the Hawaiian lsl-
ands, and particularly the collec.
tors of customs in those Islands
with it's terms, and also with the
provisions OF the existing laws en-
acted by Congress aud the treaty
between the United State, aud
China, approved December s, 1894
governing and restricting the
immigration of Chinese into the
United States, to the end that
the same may be at once put an
force and carr ed into effect IN those
islands, in accordance with the
provisions of the Joint Resolution
approved July 7, 1895"
InaSmuch as He Chinese labor
ers DhO hare heretofore resided in
the HaWaiian Islands, and hare
already departed heretrOm, did not
comply with he requirements of