The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-30
TURN OVER
THE FUNDS
Blu
reau Money Now
In Treasury.

Despite the protests of the Chinese
Consul the money I'm bank to the credit
of the immigration bureau is being
turned into the Treasury The FIRST evil
dencc uf this was when President Brown
of the First National Bank called upon
Acting Governor Cooper yesterday, and
requested him to call at the bank and
receive $4,000 OF the immigration funds
which were ready for the transfer
The money was received, in the form
of bright new gold certificates and
placed ia the Territorial treasury as
special deposit to meet drat,s which
may loo made on account of departing
Chimes No other disposition win be
made u this money for the present.
What ug Ice done with 1t in the future
lie "a question which will be allowed to
solve itself. 1t is understood that the
money Will be paid into the Treasury
from time to time until, before the end
of the sixty days notice given by the
Territory to the bank on June Goth, all
the fund will have been transferred.
There is now no course left for the
Chinese Consul but to move against the
Territory in case there should be any
one who contributed to this fund who
may fail to receive his money Oh de-
mand The Consul has put the entire
matter in the hands of the Chinese Min
lister at Washington. and will fhave moth
ing more to do until there has been re-
ceived letter from the capital which
will direct his actions.
one feature of the contest which has
developed is that there is on foot a plan
n t1lxa he NJ ha hands
of the Territory and distribute it to the
men who were assessed for the amounts,
or to their heirs in case they are dead.
and that the case is being worked up
by an attorney who has been prominent
in other litigation connected with the
Chinese. This brings up the fact too
that there are many Chinese who are re-
turning to ,ncir own country but who
are not calling for their deposits. The
contract with the old government was
such mat in the case of n departing
Chinese who took his fare and expense
money out of the .r.'0 ration fund.
there could be issued nU return certih-
cate. Since the registration oil the Chi
nose there has been a feeling that there
is no use of departing without a re-
turn certificate, as should the man hold
ing it not wish to come back, there Is
always ready sale for the papers in
semhances as would make it possible
for another to enter the country.
With this condition there has been
given an opinion from one of the at
torneys who nave been working up tho
case according to the information now
current, that with the passing of con
tract labor and the conditions before eX-
listing, all contracts made with the Re
public of Hawaii have been abrogated
and that in consequence the moneys
paid out under such labor contracts are
recoverable. With this contention there
is put on record the contrary belief that
there is a contract, for the attorney does
not permit any of his clients to make a
demand upon the authorities for a return
cert hcate and then demand the money
too.
For some days Acting Governor Cooper
has been eagerly looking for the proc
lamattou from the Chinese Consul.
calling upon the Chinese to meet to take
bank. As published in the Bulletin the
proclamation was fun of matter which
properly would need explanation, and the
order to seek a copy was to secure an
other translation, so that if there was
In 1t the language rejecting upon him,
WashmEto on could be notified The Gov
cruor could not fund a copy but the pro-
clamHtiou appeared in the Chinese News.
The translation herewith given fails to
show amy Of the language which was em-
phasizod In the paper which printed the
proclamation first:
TO CHINESE LA
BORERS
According to the Laws Of the Hawaiian
Islands Iu regard TO Chinese Laborers in
force in 1888, there was deducted from