The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-13
SOLACE CHINESE
NOW IN PRISON

Jason Chiu ashore last evening as an ex-
pertinent, and that Jason is in reality an
American citizen.
The following is copy of letter sent
Collector Stackable Saturday by United
States District Attorney Baird:
Department Of Justice, Office of United
States Attorney, District of Hawaii,
Honolulu, November 10. 1900.
Hon. L. r. Stackable, United States Col
lector, Honolulu, Hawaii
Sir: l have the honor to acknowledge
receipt of yours of this date asking as
to the best course to pursue to prevent
the landing of Chinese employees of the
L. S. s. Solace, ard possibly remaining in
the Territory. 1t would be the simplest
method, perhaps, to station guards at the
wharf to warn such Chinese persons from
landing, and, if they persist in doing 20,
to arrest them. In that event they may
be kept temporarily in the police station
in Honolulu. In such event please report
the facts promptly to this office and the
office of the United States Marshal
l agree with you that you have the un-
/ doubted right to board any vessel that
enters a port in Hawaii, and especially
a vessel of the United States, to enforce
the laws of the Nation.
/ Yours respectfully,
JOHN C. BAIRD,
United States Attorney for Hawaii.
J P. S.-With reference to the method
suggested by you of checking up twice a
day the Chinese persons referred to, I
agree with you that this furnishes the
only safe check against desertion and
landing on the part of such people.
/ J. G. B.
| The following is the opinion of a Treas
ury official on which Collector Stackable
bases his action:
Department of Justice, Office of the Solic-
| itor of the Treasury, Washington, d.
! c., June 90 1900
The Secretary of the Treasury.
Sir: The Hon. T. V. Powderly, Commits
sioner General of immigration, has refer
red for my consideration a letter, dated
, the I'd instant, from Joshua K. Brown,
Chinese inspector at Honolulu, II. l., rel
ative to the admission of Chinese going
from the United States to that Territory.
The inspector states his case in this way:
| THE positive provisions of section 101 of
the Act of April 80, 1900, that no Chinese
laborer shall be allowed to enter any State
or Territory or District of the United
States from the Hawaiian Islands, sug-
gests an inquiry of the Department for
instructions relative to the admission of
Chinese to the Territory of Hawaii"
Section 101 of the Act providing Gov
ernment for the Territory of Hawaii
shou1a, / think, be construed in connec-
tion with the joint resolution approved Ju-
shall be no further immigration of Chi
nese into the Hawaiian Islands, except
upon such conditions are now or may
hereafter be allowed by the United States
4, and no Chinese, by .eason of anything
herein contained, shall be allowed to enter
the United States from the Hawaiian
; Islands"
: No express provision is made by the
Act of April 80, 1900, for the immigration
of Chinese to Hawaii from the United
States.
If it had been the intention of Congress
to extend this privilege, doubtless reguld.
, tions would have been authorized or pre-
/ scribed, so as to prevent it's fraudulent
I abuse. While a Chinaman, who is citi
4 zen of the United States by reason Of his
birth, would have the right to visit, ol
I migrate to the Territory of Hawaii il
. common with other citizens of this coun
: try an immigrant Chinaman residing her,
: would not have the right, in the absenct
@ OF express authority by Congress.
@ I am therefore, of the opinion that Chi
q nese immigrants cannot be admitted II
# the Territory of Hawaii although goin,
i from the United States. See % OPP. A. c.
= 353; and Op. of the Solicitor of TIL
v Treasury of May 1st, 1899, as to the prop
er construction of the said resolution.
q The letter submitted is herewith re
"a turned.
ir Very respectfully,
q F. A. REEVE,
Acting Solicitor.