Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-19
IS READY To PRESENT
MITCHELL.KAHN BILL
TO EXCLUDE CHINESE
Changes Comparatively Few--Pacifc
Mail Will Have 10 Bar Chinese
Sailors Details Of
the Measure.

pleted its consideration of the Mitch.
eilKahn Chinese exclusion bill and
turned the whole bill as amended over
to the printer. Another meeting is to
be held tomorrow to go over the bill |
In its third print, and II will then be
reported to the Senate. The result Of |
the Senate committees work is to |
agree on the MitchellKahn bill sub |
stantially as at first introduced. M |
merous changes in phraseology have
been made, but without affecting tho
general features of the bill Section 2, |
prohibiting the Philippine Chinese
from entering the mainland OF the
United States. is retained. Some of
the minor suggestions made by the
California Commission and Federation
of Labor have been adopted, but the
famous section D." as suggested by
the California Commission. proposing
to let in five representatives of every
wholesale house in China, was not
considered by the Senate committee
and does not appear in the bill.
One of the important matters retain.
ed In the bill Is the provision prohibit
ing American vessels from employing
Chinese in their crews unless such
Chinese are entitled to enter the Unit.
ed States. A strong effort was made
by the Pacific Mail to have this clause
stricken out, but the representatives
of the labor people and others were in.
sistent that this be retained.
Another point vital to the effectual
exclusion of coolies in which the Pa
cifc Mail and Southern Pacific were
I 4, l..
corning transit cases. Maxwell Ev.
arts. representing the Pacific Mail,
used every effort to have the transit
regulations stricken from the bill, leav.
| ing in provision that the Secretary
of the Treasury should be authorized
| to make such regulations. AS Evarts
/ is now In the Supreme Court of the
| United States trying to knock out the
/ part of the exclusion laws governing
Chinese in transit on the ground that
the regulations made by the Secretary
OF the Treasury are not a Govern.
mental act" as required by the Ameri.
Can-Chinese treaty, II Is plain to see
why he did not want Congress to act.
Evarts also tried to have FL Paso. Tex,
included as a port of entry for Chinese.
That would have necessitated com
r!ete machinery of inspection at FL
Paso. and would have nulliied other
provisions of the new bill, which re-
Guire railroad companies transporting
Chinese to our borders to enter into
. contracts not to aid In the unlawful
entry OF Chinese.
The Senate Committee declined to
accept Evarts' proposed amendments
4.
regulations heretofore in effect. II
they are now enacted into law, Evarts'
contention in the Supreme Court will
10 groundiess so far as the new law
: is concerned. He may knock out the
present regulations, but the new law
will be in full force. There also are
verbal changes in the provision con.
! corning the detention OF Chinese who
seek entry at American ports, and the
following penalty Is provided for fail.
ure to observe this provision:
Every person bound under this sec.
ton to detain a Chinese person who
shall refuse or wilfully neglect prompt.
" to perrorm such duty shall be deem.
. ed guilty of a felony and on conviction
shall he punIsbed nv n fine of NOT less
than $1,000 nor more than $4,000 mr. NV
impris0nment for a term of not less
than one wear. or Inv both such fine
J and IMPRISONMENT"
a The paragraph concerning the re.
turn of Chinese Is changed so as 10
. read as follows:
"The duty of returning said Chinese
person is hereby imnosed ON the mas
: Ter. owner cohsienee or agent of the
I vessel and on the railway cornoration
\ IFS general Officers and agents and on
I the owners or general offIcers and
@ agents of other tronsnortation lines m