The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-06

in order that warrant may be issued oupon oath of such officer for the com mitment and trial of the said Chinese laborers."
 The grossly oppressive character Of this provision may aptly be illustrat- ed by the fact that, according to well authenticated rumor, only about 40 per cent. of the Chinese laborers re- siding in the vicinity of New York have certificates of residence according to the Government census of the Chi nese just taken. This means that sev- eraI thousand Chinese labOrers in New York alone are likely to be arrested in the near future, because without cer- titicates, though the Governments report shows that substantially all laborers required to register at the time of, registration did register, and that accordingly these persons are here lawfully with certificates of resi- dence.
 I further challenge as illegal and in violation of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, rendered in the case of United States vs. Tom Hong, 19S U. s. 517, rule 27 of the regu- lations of July 27, 1908, reading as fol- lows:
 Chinese persons who gained admis- sion to the United States as members of the admissible class who, after ad- mission, become laborers, shall be ar rested as being unlawfully in this country, as is provided in rule 24.'' An Outrage i'll Boston.
 In October, 1903, several hundred tC Chinese persons residing in Boston, l Mass, were arrested one Sunday night. No effort whatever was. made to con- fine arrests to "iaborers,'' as required by this regulation but at time when people were not engaged in laboring, so that even the officials were unable to guess at the pursuits of their victims, every chinese person to be found in the restaurants, clubs, and private houses of Boston was arrested. It further developed in the course of these hearings in which was counsel, that the excessive zeal of the Chinese in- spector who instituted these proceed ings, induced him recklessly to swear falsely in each of the hundreds of com plaints on which these men were held. He admitted on the witness stand that his allegation that defendants were Chi nese laborers was false, and that he had no knowledge whatever as to the occpuation of the hundreds of persons concerning whom he undertook to swear positively upon his own know ledge. Judge Lowell, while recognizing these facts, felt constrained to hold ! that as no complaints were necessary in the cases at all, even a false oath underlying the proceeding would not avai the hapless victims. After the lapse of fOrty-eight hours, about half | of the arrested men were released by 1 the Government itself after some had been injured on account of their bru- tai treatment; others were discharged by the commissioner after hearings; a number were deported, because they could not meet the oppressive burden of proof provisions of these laws. It is not surprising that such conduct as 1 this should have led to mass meetings in Fanuell Hall, denouncing such dis regard of the principles and traditions
 for which Fanueii Hall stoodI
 About year before this a number 1 of Chinese were arrested i'll this city, but I was enabled to prove on behalf of the defndants that the warrents had been obtained by alse oath and mis- representation practised upon the
 United States commissioner and the district attorney. Commissioner Hitch cock, before whom the men were
 brought, had the manliness to dis charge each of the twenty-four victims on account of this fraud upon the
 court, and this was the ned these particular raids" in New York. Some
 time after wards. as the result of the investigation demanded by the Chi nese minister, the chief inspector who instituted these proceedings in New
 York was removed from office and his subordinate was tranferred.