The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-08
IMPORTING CONTRACT LABOR
y. REMINGTON SAID TO HAVE
prEy CHARGED WITH DOING 1T.
=. r. Bishop, His Former Clerk, Is
ysrdoned From Jail and Makes
an Amdavit which Causes Some
thing of a Sensation in Tacoma.

a,.c,al Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
TACOMA, juno Undressing develop
-.r,s are said TO be pending in connec-
.,an with tho pardon OF ]. F. Bishop. who
80, the county jail. Wednesday, on
,~rdon issued by Gov. Rogers, at the
,.ouest. It Is alleged, of State Labor Com
,us~ioner Blackmen and United States
Attorney cay
II ia said that Bishop made a statement
,mplIcating W. II. Remington. the we'll
snovn business man. in the Importation
A. Japanese contract labor Shoriff Mills,
in whose custody Bishop was. knows
cathing Of the statements said to have
hssn made. but Commissioner Blackman
hsld 4 conference with Bishop, in the Jail,
uhere II is said Bishop has signed a state
ment duplicating Remington.
The story has attracted a great deal of
sttsntion on the streets here today. Rem
tneton talked to a reporter yesterday,
hut In the published report he says today
there are things he never said and that
the Interview as published is misleading
and Unfair
Absolute facts are hard to get. but the
story told by those who pretend TO know
Bishops side Of II is that Bishop has
knowleGse OF transactions which viii send
Remington to the penitentiary, as the pen
Dor Is 81 900 fine for each Jap. and i'm
prisonment. IT Is alleged that Reming
ton knew for many months that Bishop
was taking money from the firm, and
that he knew the sum amounted to over
1900, and several times demanded or
Bishop that he quit gambling and take no
more money. though he did not demand
that he make good any that he had taken
In reply to this demand Bishop is said 10
have told Remington that he had him over
Q barrel, and that he had better keep
stili. Finally Remington refused to stand
II longer and Bishop quit. Remington
then called upon the bonding company to
make good Bishops defalcation, and the
bonding company began looking up Bishop
with the intention of sending him to the
pententiary. Bishop then sent word 10
Remington, from Seattle, that II would
not do TO let him go to the penitentiary.
and Walter Harvey. Remington's attor-
ney, was sent over to Seattle, where an
arrangement was made with Bishop
whereby the bond company was to be re-
leased and Bishop was to plead guilty and
take year N 1a'l, thus cutting OF the
bond company from sending him to the
penltentiary.
After Bishop was In jail he is said to
have Informed Remington that ne needed
money. and negotiations were carried on.
by which IL was agreed that Remington
should pay Bishops wife 500 for her sup
port during the time her husband was
serving his sentcnce
II IN understood that in tho affidavit
made by Bishop In order to receive par
don, he states thai he was In the habit
OF going from Tacoma up to Victoria a
day before the arrival oil each steamship
from Japan, with rack OF money. with
which he fixed out each incoming Jap
with the $40 necessr~y Ia pass the immi-
grant inspectors when the ship should
reach Tacoma, That tails money WIS again
collected by Bishop at Tacoma, after tho
Japs had passed the inspector, and again
taken to Victoria To stand service in
bringing In the next lot OF Japa.
The statements of Bishop are received
with very little crcdencp here where he
IL known as "A most unreliable degenerate.
while Remington Is one OF the most sub