The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-30
MAY DELAY THE
KOREA'S SAILING
Government May Refuse to Allow
Transfer OF Chinese Crew
From Gaelic.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 2S.-The |
Examiner says: The go Chinese sailors
who were brought from the Orient uroer
contract to work for the Pacific Mall
Steamship Company as the crew OF the
Korea will not be permitted to lan1 nor
to go aboard the American steamship
and they will be deported to China OF
Japan.
The original order allowing them To iand
in San Francisco, it is now learned was
based upon misrepresentation made 10
the department at Washington. presum-
ably by the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
many. Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Taylor, upon learning the facts
conuterrnanded the order and instructed
collector Stratton to hold the Chinese
mill the whole matter can pe investigat-
ed.
'Our first information" SAID Assistant
Secretary Taylor to a correspondent CT
.rbe Examiner at Washington last
niebt twas that the Chinese aboard the
Gaelic were seamen in distress and as
soon a. possible would be transferred TO
a ship sailing Cor China. In'3 DING ING
case. the Treasury Department olrec'ed
sailors to land.
1--WE have protest from the Sailors
Union at San Francisco that the Chlnese
aboard the Gaelic are to be USED as u crew
for the Korea. Il that IS the case II ~
clearly a violation of the laws We VIII
NOT hermit it, L have countermanded the
first order to allow them TO land ana Co
dav wired MIR. Stratton TO .nVestisate
the matter fully and report to the ue pa. =,
ment When L have this report L "ii
take acti u. -.
.aT,be7 officiaI investigation Will show the
facts TO be exactly as the Coast Seamen
Union has represented them, SAID - &
tary Andrew Furuseth last night. Ihest
: men are not sailors in distress, but cooile'
imported in violation of the contract laool
law.
, 1--WE have heard of the misrepresenta
: lions made to the Treasury Deparlheh
4 in order to effect their landing ana ne
2 ueve that the ficcion was oulit "a III
fact that they were originally &C.,
a aboard the Picking to be shipped TO S1i
!, Francisco That vessel was disabled am
ran into Kobe, Japan, where the ChihCs
were transferred to the Gaelic. II tn
Seamen's Union had not made It's protIS
they would have been lanGed rom III
:. Cac,ic to he detained ostensibly until
) convenient opportunity was otfered
cond them back to their homes, ana tie'
. would have been shipped on the hore
2 as sailors and they would have reIliaiIie
. there We are confident that tne 80 % !.
= | recruitment will order their oepor'a
= ton. for we shall see that it is placed u
/. possessiofi of the facts"
=, 1t is understood here that the Cn maI;
u will be impounded on board the
% until the matter is settled -
ON August % Secretary Taylor o. "a
II 1mmirration Bureau in Washington salc
- IF they were simply Chinese trying ,
u get back to Hongkong, we would let thel
70 90 on the Korea or any other poat 50 So, .
q, -. oro1p can be brought to this coul
try and placed aboard American Vesse ei
10 7 do not think the Korea will SAL on -
r 9otb However, we are waiting for ma
advices before acting. In the meantrli
IT permission to transfer has been reseiii'
u. la