Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-24
Litigants Disliksd Idea, ss They May Have
to Bribs Jurors,
Or. STEIN PUSHES INVESTIGATIONS
Indian ssvant DIGS Into Buried Ruins Of
Chinese Desert
HOW GENERAL NoGl DEFENDS sTOESstl
JapsnssS Visitor at Port Arthur says
Defender Did His Best UAder
the Conditions Com
fronting HIN.

PEKING, June 2-(Specal Cablegram TO |
The Bee. .)-wu Ting Fang has left Peklns !
lnto whA1 residents Of the western world !
would call exile. He goes into retirement |
and. after repsiTing to the tombs Of his
ancestors will reside at Shanghai-that /
haven for wealthy Chinese seeking free
dom from ofBcial interference.
barrister OF IAicoln's Inn, WI Ting /
Fang mas devoted some years to the effort !
TO humRnizs the administration Of justice |
in China His memorial urging the re- /
movsl Of some of the more barbarous /
methods OF death sentence and torture !
was approved by imperial edict last year
but. az feared At the time effect has never !
been given to #. Some Improvement has
taken place in the Eaols of Tien Tsin and |
THi Nan Fu and one OF rwo other capitals /
where there are foreigners to observe what /
iE going on. but still throughout practically !
the whole empire the judicial methods, IN |
all civil and criminal cases, for the ex-
traction Of evidence by torture and fog
EinE are ldentcally the same methods OF
barbarism which have been in existence |
for centuries. Nothing could more clearly
show the distortion of the present Chinese /
views of justice than the case of the /
Lady from SEE Chuan," whose arrest for
kidnapping preceded the Shanghai riots. |
There was an outcry at the arrest Of this
on the charge OF kidnapping, for
Was not kidnapping only slave dealing-a
legitimate trafic sactioned by Official
usase-purchasins little girls in sze ChuAn
cheap and resellng them dear at Canton
for purposes which need not be specified.
Jury Trials Not wanted.
Recently Wu Ting Fang drafted a new
=, code OF procedure in civil and crimiptd
cases. The work, which was admired as a
literary effort. suggests. among other
things, trial by jury. The innovation 10
regarded with dismay by litigants, as the
necessity of having to bribe jury as well
As the magistrate must add an intolerable
burden to the present cost OF litigation.
WI Ting Fang retires, discouraged by the
outlook, seeing no reasonable prospect OF
the reform of the judicial system as ex-
pressed in article xii OF the Mackay treaty
VI. 1907. any more than of reform ia the
monetary system promised by the same
treaty.
An expedition from which hacoloRists
and Eeographers alike expect important re-
suits is being undertaken by Dr. Nj. A.
Stein of the Indian education department
Some few years ago DR.. Stein carried out
a remarkably SUCCESSFUL series OF investl-
cations among the Sand-buried ruins in the
ihotan district OF Chinese Turkestan. The
result Of his excavations was to throw
much additional light on the extent to
which Indian culture was spread through
central Asia AZ very early period. while
interesting evidences were found ~ the
innuepce eHerted by the west this
mote region In classical times. The high
est experts had nothing hut praise for the
way in which DR., Stein conducted his
searches and it is therefore with great
satisfaction that news has been received
that he is starting on a second expedition,
with the object Of resunling his exploIa-
tlons along the southern edge OF the Takla
Makan desert This time he hopes 10
carry his Investigations further east to-
ward the westernmost confines Of China
proper
Chinese May Return Home.
II thousands OF Chinese are brought back
from South Africa by the British govern
ment because Of the agitation against the
employment of Chinese labor. II will obvi-
ously be necessary early TO increase the
consular stan. for the Chinese who are re-
patriated cannot be dumped at the port of
departure, but must be conducted inland.
often far inland. to their homes while pre-
oRutionary measures should be taken 10
prevent retanRtory action on the part Of
the Chinese against British manufactures
tip 10 date 1864 Chinese have emisrated
to South Africa from the three northern
provinces. Chill, Honan and shantunR A.
sB eubsrtVinE from the two ports Tien-
vsntion nor the contract under which the
men are indentured makes any provision
for any position Of the wages earned in
South Africa being psid 10 the mems
families in China. The mines labor agency
has, however. In the interests OF employer
aud employed, and TO the obvious advsn-
tRSe Of all, arranged 20 pay monthly in
China, when so desired, 50 to the family
OF each Seoiis, the amount being deducted
from the wages earned az the mines More
than 1900 families are Al present de-
pendant this allotment The cost Of the
!, nAehinsry Of payment 70 $1,000 per annum.
aud the amount distributed during 1875
wa $4,000 but this year will be consider
ably more.
Should the government forbid the Issue
OF further licenses. n IL reasonable 10 eH-
pest that the labor agency will cease the
allotment system. Notices will then have
- Be posted at the allotment once in Tien-
tain City announcing that. the British gov
sroEnsnt having forbidden further immigra-
oon ~ Chinese laborers To South Africa
IN Sthsr words the British government
having cancelled the right of tbs Chinese
miner voluntarily TO enter into contract
- 20 70 South Africa to work In the mines.
although such contract meets With the full
approval OF the Chinese goyernment-no
further alIOtments will be issued. The ef-
feet will be considers bic suffering in some
ll.eoe poor Chinese families; probably there
Will Be Anti-BriuSh manifestations. aud
possibly the British government may have
70 face q similar situation 10 that created
By the Chinese exclusion sot for America
NoSt's Defense Of stOesseI.
COnsidsrshls interest has been caused by
the INSTALLATION here OF an interview with
oSnsrAl NOGi. the great japanese general
in which Gneral NoE1 defends the conduct
q General stOsssel in the recent Russo
japanese war, AmSng other things Gen
srAl Gogi N ths intsrylsv said There
have been many attacks upon the conduct
% oeasrAl St0essel. These ! cannot en-