The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-23
OFFICIALS FEAR
BURNS CAMPAIGN
Expose Of Fraud May
Lead to Important
Arrests.
Secret Service Agent Works
Quietly and Causes Feel
ing Of Uncertainty.

That a ring exists for the illegal land
ing of Chinese is the theory on which
Secret Service Agent William ]. Burns
is working and the possibility of arrests
of Federal officials and others in connec-
ton with the recent expose of substitu-
ton of Chinese ordered deported is ex-
pected to take place at any time.
Those who are conversant with the
methods employed by the Chinese to Sc
cure the illegal landing of their country
men ridicule the statements that only four
white men were implicated in the sub
stitution Of Chinese ordered deported, the
expose OF which led to the arrest of
Deputy sheriffs Burnett. Dasha and
Dempsey and the suicide Of Deputy
United States Marshal William P. Gam
BILE.
An air of mystery pervaded the Federal
building yesterday and neither United
States District Attorney Woodwork nor
United States Marshal Shine was willing
to vouchsafe any information. The two
officials contended that all the white men
implicated in the fraud had been discov-
cred and that it might be possible that
some Chinese might be arrested for being
implicated in the substitution Of old
Chinese for young ones.
Secret Service Agent Burns is not con-
sulting Woodwork or Shine as to his
next move. The Government sleuth is
quietly going about his work and for that
reason an air of uncertainty exists in the
Federal building.
APPLICATIONS INCREASE.
The records of the United States Dis
trict Court show that there has been a
large increase in recent years in the num-
Der of applications for writs of habeas
corpus for Chinese denied landing by the
Chinese Bureau. Since January 1, 1890, up
to date the number of applications for
writs of habeas corpus amount to 1895.
All of these applications were made on
the ground that the Chinese denied land
ing were native born Americans. OF the
number of cases mentioned and passed
upon by the Federal courts 491 were
ordered deported and 904 were given per-
mission to land.
In 1896 there were thirty-five applica-
lions of alleged native born Americans
and three were denied admission to this
country
In 1897 thirty-eight native born Ameri-
cans sought the relief of the writ of
habeas corpus and sixteen failed to gain
admission to America and were ordered
deported.
landing by the Chinese Bureau and who
sought writs of habeas corpus reached
the total of 271 and the courts ordered
ninety-fve of this number deported.
In 1899 the applications for writs of
habeas corpus were 136 and of this num-
Der sixty-three were remanded for de-
portation to China
From January l, 1900, up to the present
time the number of applications of
Chinese for writs of habeas corpus
amounted to SIS, of which number 314
failed to gain admission to this country.
ARE PALPABLE FRAUDS.
In. all cases where the writs of habeas
corpus have been sought the applica-
tions were for Chinese denied landing
by the Chinese Bureau. The invariable
custom of the few white attorneys who
appeared in the cases was to secure the
writ on the ground that the applicant
was a native born American and Illegally
deprived of his liberty by the>agents of
the steamship companies.
The same evidence would be presented
in every case, so-called fathers" and
''uncles" being produced to testify that
the applicant for admission was born in