The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-09-06
ADMISSION FOR CHINESE
Administration 4 Said to Favor Re-
peal Of the Exclusion Act.
Assistant Secretary Taylor States
Lasv-Abiding Citizens-Comment On
the pian-The Big Corporations
Only Could Desire Pauper Labor.

Exclusion laws at the coming session OF
Congress. Prominent members of the par
y say that the Celestials have proven
themselves good citizens, ans have come
, to be a necessity in the development OF
the Pacific Coast. It is stated that they
profess to believe that the intense hatred
Of labor unions for the Chinese has large
" died down and that the time has come
when the Mongols should be admitted into
this country Oh the same terms as any
other foreigners.
Assistant Secretary H. 4. Taylor, of the
Treasury Department, who has direct
charge of enforcing the immigration laws,
thinks that the proposed change could be
made to good advantage.
There is now no need for the Chinese
Exclusion law" he said to a Times re-
porter yesterday 1T was good enough
piece of legislation when it was passed,
but there is no longer a rush Of Chinese
coolies to this county and the causes
which made the law necessary have ceas-
ed. I should like to see il abolished SO
that the Mongcls could enter on the same
terms as any other foreigners. AT the
! same time, mind you, l should raise the
| qualifications demanded Of all immi-
/ grants, for I think that our present laws
peoples in all the Old World here, and the
Treasury officials cannot prevent their
t entrance SO long the statutes remain as
| they now are
Il am disposed TO doubt. however, that
any measure doing away with the Chinese
| Exclusion law can be passed at the com
| ing session of Congress. which is short
| term, sure to be crowded with all kinds
of bills.
TIE hatred which was formerly felt
for the Celestials on the Pacific Coast
| has largely passed away The Chinese
have proven themselves a most valuable
and necessary iaboTing element. Today
! they are more desired than white men
for many classes OF work, and command
higher wages. Fruit men and gardeners,
who are looking for the best workmeu
to be had, take the Chinese in prefer
ence TO native Americans. The same thing
is true as to the Cinnamon employed as
domestics IN households.
THE only objection 10 them seems to
be that they stay here merely long
enough to get a stake before going back
to China 10 settle. They accumulate q
few thousand dollars, and take the money
out Of the country They are, however,
obedient Iaw-abiding people, who are al
most never heard OF as giving offence 10
their white neighbors- Certainly should
rather have q lot OF Chinese in the COM
nunity than the scum of lower Italy or
past few years.
This alleged purpose of Administration
leaders to let the Cinnamon into this
country again is certain to cause the most
intense interest all over the West where
the Mongots now have q footing. Tho
move has unusual importance Just at this
| time when the President has committed
| himself 10 restoring the DowageT Empress
| to the throne of the Celestial Kingdom
It is declared that Republican from one
of the Pacific Coast States will be prevailed
upon by party leaders to introduce d bill
| IN Congress repeating the present exclu-
sion laws Administration heads think
that the effect on the country would be
| better were the move 10 proceed from q
Western man IN close touch with the Chi
nese situation Up to tne present time no.
body has been found who stands ready TO
| introduce such a repeating measure The
search of the party leaders for Western
| er who will consent 20 sponsor law OF
that kind promises to be q hard one Ha-
tired for the Chinese Is still tenet II tho
minds of laboring men all over the PacI1c
| Coast They have had so much competition
with rice eating Mongols willing 10 woTk
for 90 cents a day. that any effort TO re-
peal the old Geary law would be certain
to arouse a hornets nest
| A Puget Sound man who is Intimately ac-
quainted with conditions as they are now
| along the Pacific Coast, said this morning:
THE Republicans viii fnd themselves
badly damaged should they carry out this
attempt to foist Cinnamon upon the coun-
try again. Nothing could be done now
which would arouse greater antagonism
among Western people. They know what
the Chinese are and they know what a
curse they are to any region which they
fnfest. No Pacific Coast man except the
heads of the big corporations looking for
the cheapest labor to be had would ever
consent TO return TO old conditions. Such
move would paralyze white labor all
along the Coast. The Chinese have forced
themselves into every trade. They are tai
Iors cobblers, butchers, restaurant keep
ers, merchants printers, carpenters, over
| all makers cooks. gardeners fishermen.
: fruit growers section men-eveTything i'm
aginable, II short, and in every line they
work for half what the honest white peo-
pie in the country can afford to receive.
'.The greatest harm they do, of course,
is that they make it impossible for decent
= workingmen to live III the same commune
II. But their blight is felt also by white
merchants and business men. The Chinese
of the Coast have community all OF their
d own. Everything they eat and wear and
| use is shipped to them from the Orient.
and no white merchant can hope to sell
them anything Finally when they have
accumulated a few thousand dollars they
take it back to China with them, and their
going ends one individual leech who has
: sucked all the blood possible from this
country before dropping back again into
: the Orient.
so Secretary Taylor says that the Ex-
: elusion law is needed no longer since the
/ Chinese are not coming here now. Ism :
his logic little bit mixed? If the Chi
3 Dese are not coming here in such hordes
as they did before the passage of the law,
: it is merely because they cannot get in
now. Repeal the law and they will fairly
: food the whole Pacific Coast again. Even
5 now the Acugols are smuggling themselves
into this country every day. They come
0 chiefly over the line from Mexico and from
. British Columbia. and all the earefulness
: in the world is not able TO keep them en-
a | tirely out
: The Chinese Exclusion law was origi-
/ | nally framed by Representative Geary Of
d California and was approved on May s,
t | 1892 1t was result of the intense trou-
t bles that had grewn up along the Pacific
e Coast over the Chinese coolie labor then
i flooding the country 1t provided that for
ten years the coming OF Chinese lahorers
| into this country was suspended. In May,
1892 under the Cleveland Administration
all existing exclusion laws were continued
n in force for period Of ten years All the
T exclusion laws were ratified under Presi-
L dent Cleveland or December Z, 1894, when
a treaty was arranged between this coun-
try and China giving America power to
D exclude Chirese subjects coming to this
country as laborers.