The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-12
MAYBEANOTHERERUPT|N A strange DISCREPANCY N
TOMORROW THE LAST DAY FOR
CHINESE.
The Number of Chinese Who Have
Registered Exceeds the Census Re-
turns by Six Thousand.

The work of the Internal Revenue
Bureau i'm issuing certificates for Chi
nese has developed the remarkable fact
that 5000 more applications for such
certificates have been made than there
are Chinese in the territory, according
to the census only just taken. This
discrepancy cannot fail to attract at
tentiOn at Washington, when the
treasury department receives returns
showing that the collector of internal
revenue has issued certificates giving
rights of residence to six thousand
more Chinese than the census shows
to have been here i'm 1900, since which
time no new arrivals have been allow
ed to enter the country.
Is it another example of oriental
trickery? This is a question that Wash
ington will ask. 1t is said that Chinese
resident here might have secured more
than one certificate each, in some cases,
with a view to trying TO help friends
out. The Mongolians, with their well
known tendency to try to pass on one
another's photos, might have concluded
that they could help some brethren in
China to get footing here, if they had
certificate or two at hand.
On the other hand, the work of the
registration bureau has been in the in
terests of the Chinese. They have
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terests they must register, while with
the census it was the other way, and
great difficulty was experienced in get
ting ignorant Mongolians to submit to
be counted. This would lead to eXpec-
tations of registrations in excess of the
census figures, but an increase of 5000
is regarded as a very extraordinary.
In any event the increase is there,
for Washington to puzzle over. The GER
tificates are issued, about $1,000 of them
and they will stay issued. If some of
the Chinese got more than one certi-
ficate, in different districts, the only
way to foil their scheme is by vigilance
in watchino immigration.
Internal Revenue Collector Chamber
lain and his force of deputies have al
most finished their work of registering
Chinese. At midnight tomorrow their
labors will come to an end, and after
that time it will be impossible for a
| Chinaman to obtain a certificate. All
who are found to have not registered
according to the prescribed require
ments of the law, or who possess no
certificates will be subject to deporta-
ton to their native land.
The number of Chinese who will have
registered at midnight tomorrow Will,
| it is estimated, be something like ~
| 500. This of course, is only an estimate
| Inc exact figures may eAtceu Nllia
number or be less than these figures
| by several hundred. 1t is thought by
| the officers who have had this work in
| charge, that there will not be fifty
orientals in the territory who have not
observed the registration law.
The work of Collector Chamberlain
and his assistants has been conducted
most thoroughly. Originally, it was
| intended to establish several station
cry offices throughout the islands but
Collector Chamberlain thought it would
be better, and more production of sat
isfactory results if the officers went
/ among the Chinese. AS a consequence
there has not been a rice field on the
Islands that has not been visited, ano
| how thorough the work of the deputies
has been may be inferred from the
fact that the last census returns show
| ed that the Islands contained 2l 900
while the number of certificates will moi
be less than $1,000. When the work
is finished a map of the ground on eacf
of the island that has been gone over
will be printed. This will show, in &
graphic manner how much care has
been exercised in this branch of the
| governments work.