The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-09
WILL HAVE HEARING TODAY
Had No Certificates of En-
 trance to United States.
Of the Eighteen Residents in rnis City Eleven Show Papsrs-They
 Were Bounded Up by United
 States Marshal Last Night.

Seven Montgomery Chinausen are in | trouble. It is trouble of the strenuous
 kind because they are in jail. Moreover,
 they are threatened with deportation l from the United States because they are
 charged with a violation of the Chinese
 exclusion act of Congress.
 | The Chinamen who are deprived of their
 liberty by decree of the Government en- 1 joy the euphonious names of Lum Joe. Ny P. Hang Kmae Tue. Nun Chung. HI I Chung, Hung Chung and Chung Wah. They are erstwhile joyful launderers of Montgomery linen, and one of them is quoted as having gravely made the unre- | ligious statement that "Meliean man makee helle sight of troubie." A sudden | reduction in the charge for laundering | collars would have been calamity in l the eyes of these Celestials, but this ! trouble to them amounts to a terrible | calamity. l Agents of your Uncle Samuel 'calied" seven of these almond-eyed residents of your Capital City of Alabama, and when | they laid their hands down upon the | table, they were not deuce-high. They were found to be travelling without their | card Unless they produce certain of- 1 ficiaI documents, which this Government requires all good Chinamen to possess, | they will be sent beyond the domain of l Theodore Roosevelt, and will again seek | shelter under the dragon of Kwang Su. | The law hath said so, and 1t is so writ l ten.
 l All Places are Raided. Specifically, Deputy United States Mar | shals H. M. McLemore, J. w. Smith, I Hoyle Bryan and William E. Jackson raided all places in Montgomery kept by | Chinese last night. The officers had heard that there were certain Ceiestiais l sojournng here without license to do. l business in America, and they went In | quest of information. In other words. like a wolf In the fold they sNooped down upon the laundrymen and suggest
 ed that they show their papers. | There are eighteen Chinamen in Mont- | gomery. Eleven of these proudly waved
 their "plapers' in the faces of the min | ions of the law and went back to their work. Hung Chung and Chung Wah busted themselves to find their ''plapers, | but they were not forthcoming and the | officers extended them temporary protec- | ton.
 l When the procession entered the place | of Kmae Tue, one of the deputies in- ouired his name. In Oriental guttural,
 he muttered something that sounded like
 Me Too
 | "Yes, you, too," declared the officer
 sternly "Wheres your papers?"
 The papers were not produced. and the Chinaman joined the party. the officers
 ascertainng his name from sign which | swung upon the door to the place.
 Make Slight Tloubler.
 'Mellican man makee hellee slight of
 tlouble," declared Nun Chung with ex- l
 no washee. Alice samee l glet plaper You see blime by"
 This explanation did not satisfy the l unyielding Americans. and Nun Chung
 closed up his place and accompanied the | guardians of American dignity and | American law.
 When all of the Chinamen in Mont l gomery had been visited the officers had | seven prisoners and they took them to
 the big red brick building on Dexter | Avenue where the agents of the gov | ernment transact such matters of de- l tail. The Chinamen were arraigned be- | fore United States Commissioner Fillmore. | who fixed their bail at $50 each. None I of them made bond and they were placed | in charge of deputy marshal until this | morning when the Commissioner will | hear evidence in the cases.
 | On account of the county jail being in- | fected with smallpox the Chinamen spent | last night in a room in the rear of the | saloon kept by J. W. Smith on Dexter
 Avenue. They were guarded by q | deputy marshall
 Hearing at 10 O'clock. 1 The hearing of the cases against the | Chinamen is set for 10 o'clock this morn
 ing before United States Commissioners | Fillmore, who has final Jurisdiction. They | will be prosecuted under Section of the | Chinese Exclusion Act of May 5, 1Ss2 which gives United States Commits | sioner power to deport Chinese who are
 convicted of being in the United States | without proper certificates.
 | If the Chinamen are convicted by Con- | missioner Fillmore they will be sent to the l custom house office At San Francisco and | government officers will see them safely | aboard an outbound vessel on their voy- | age to their native land.
 | More than one of the Chinamen ar- | rested last night have been residents or | Montgomery several years. They have | formed many acquaintances here and | have numerous patrons who will be in-
 terested in the outcome or the cases l against them.
 | It is said that the arrest last night | of these Chinamen is not the result of l special orders from the government to | seek out Chinese who are violating the | exclusion act Information was received | by the United States Marshal that there
 were Chinamen in Montgomery without l proper papers and the deputy marshals 1 were simply instructed to ascertain if l the information was true. The arrest | of 4I,o savap Mongolians followed