Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-27
WI T|NG-FANG IN EXILE
Goes to Shanghai, Haven for
Wealthy Chinese.

Special Cablegram to The Star
PEKING. June 27-Wu Ting-fang has
left Picking into what residents or the
western world call exile. He goes into re-
tfrement, and. after repairing to the tomos
of his ancestors, will reside at Shanghai
that haven for wealthy Chinese seeking
freedom from official interference
Az harrister of Lincolns Inn, WI Ting
fang has devoted some years to the eHort
70 bumanize the administration OF justice
In China. His memorial urging the re-
moyal of some Of the more barbarous meth
DDS of death sentence and torture was ap-
proved by imperial ediet last year, put as
feared at the time, effect has never been
given to it, Some improvement has taken
place in the goals of Tientsin and Tsi-nan-
flu and one two other capitals "nere
there are foreigners to observe Wnat us is
going on, but still. throughout practically
the whole empire, the judicial methods, In
all civil and criminal cases, for the extrac-
ton of evidence by torture and hogglng are
identically the same methoos OF parparish
which have been in existence for centuries.
Nothing could more clearly show the dlstor-
ton of the present chinese views or JUS
tice than the case Of the LADY from sze-
chuan," whose arrest for kidnapping pre-
ceded the Shanghai riots. There was an
outcry at the arrest of this lady ON the
charge of kidnapping, for was not kidnapping
only slave dealing-a legitimate taffc sane
toned by Of1lclal uSdge-puTCudSinS ltiiS
girls In Sze-chuan cheap and reselling them
dear at Canton for purposes which need
not be specified.
New Code of Procedure.
Recently WI Tfng-fang drafted g. new
code of procedure In civil and criminal
cases. The work, which was admired as
literary effort, suggests, among other
things, trial by jury. The innovation Is re-
garded with dismay by ltigants, as the
necessity of having to bride jury as well
as the magistrate must add an intolerable
burden to the present cost of litigation. WI
Ting-fang retires discouraged by the out
look seeing no reasonable prospect of the
reform of the judicial systemn as expressed
In article II of the Mackay treaty of 1907
any more than of reform in the monetary
system promised by the same treaty.
Up to date Sc, 654 Chinese have emigrated
10 South Africa from the three northern
provinces, Chill, Holman. and Shan-tung.
Al 978 embarking from the two ports Tien-
tsin and Chin-wang-tao. Neither the con-
vention or the contract under which the
men are indentured makes any provision
for any portion OF the wages earned in
South Africa being paid to the mems fami-
lies in China. The mines labor agency has,
however In the interests Of employer and
employed, and to the obvious advantages
Of all, arranged to pay monthly In China
when 80 desired 50 to the family OF each
coolie the amount being deducted from the
wages earned at Inc lhulcb 1uotc IMAM
l2 600 families are at present dependent on
this allotment. The cost of the machinery
of payment Is $4,000 per annum. and the
amount distributed during 1905 was S250000,
but this year will be considerably more
Will Cease Allotment System
Should the government forbid the issue
OF further licenses It Is reasonable to ex-
pect that the labor agency will cease the
allotment system. Notices viii then have
to be posted at the allotment Office In
Tien-tsin city announcing that the British
government having forbidden further immi-
grafton OF Chinese laborcrs to South Africa
lin other words. the British government
having cancelled the right of the Chinese
miner voluntarily to enter into a. contract to
60 to South Africa to work In the mines.
although such contract meets with the full
approval of the Chinese government-no
further ailotments will be issued. The
effect will be considerable suffering in some
1900 poor Chinese families: probably there
will be anti British manifestations and pos-
sibly the British government may have to
face .. similar situation to that created by
the Chinese exclusion act for America
Considerable INTEREST has bean caused by