The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-29
SENT BACK
HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN CHINESE
IN SAN FRANCISCO
May BE on the China This Trip-Steam-
ship Company Wanted to Send Them
To Mexico.

The Pacific Mail steamship China. /
which will probably arrive this evening .
from San Francisco, may have on board |
about a hundred Chinese whom the /
Treasury Department has ordered the .
company to ship back to China The |
steamship company has been making a |
fight at San Francisco to get permission |
to get rid of the Chinese by sending |
them to Mexico, or beyond the borders |
Of the United States anywhere, rather F.
than to take them all the way home !
The Treasury Departments order is
that the Chinese must be sent home at
once.
The Pacific Mail Company had rs
Chinese confined in detention sheds in
its San Francisco wharf at last ac-
counts, all Of them refused landings
by the federal courts. The courts gave
their decisions in the usual form, as
Judge Estee does here, ordering the
Chinese to be taken in custody by the
marshal and transported to the coun-
try whence they came. The steamship
company appealed the cases from court
to court for Il meant to the corporation
increased revenue by the continuation
of SIMILAR patronage,
Recently the Chinese at the wharf
have been very restless and an outbreak
has been considered imminent. Both
the steamship people and the immigra-
ton officials had in mind the fight that
occurred a month ago on the occasion
of the deportation of a lot of Chinese
who didn't care to return home. Ac-
cordingly extra precautions were taken,
on the day of the departure of the Hong
Kong Maru. The decision from Wash
ington being hourly expected every one
on the wharf expected to see trouble,
But things passed off quietly and there
was no need to use the big three-inCh
v11 in,
anticipation of revolt.
The Washington ruling is stated as
follows:
WASHINGTON. April 15.-The Treas
ury Department has received from the
Collector of Customs at San Francisco
a telegram stating that ninety-eight
Chinese who are detained in detention
sheds on steamship docks at San Fran
cisco threaten violence if they are not
either taken back to China by the
steamship companies or are allowed
their freedom. Several Chinese who
were detained have managed to escape,
and the case is giving the Treasury De
partment some trouble. In answer TO
the report of the Collector Assistant
Secretary Taylor today wired him to
make a written demand on the steam
ship companies for the deportation Of
the detained Chinese and to further
notify the companies that the Treasury
Department will prosecute them for
/ every Chinese who has escaped.
/ The Cinnamon who are detained in
| the sheds have been held there from
| three to nine months awaiting deporta-
! ton, and the steamship companies have
done nothing to send them away They
| came to San Francisco ostensibly for
/ tr9nsit to Mexico, but the immigration
| officers had reason to doubt the good
faith Of those looking after their des-
| tinatiOn, which was believed to be this
/ country and the Cinnamon We're pre-
vented from landing and ordered to be
/ deported. The steamship companies
have a case pending in the Supreme
. Court which they believe may settle the
right of the Treasury to require
them to depOrt Cinnamon, and that is
one reason they are holding the China
/ men.