The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-02-10
new RULES Of entry
REGULATIONS REGARDING cRlp.
EsE CONSIDERABLY CHANGER

vestigating the Subject Approves
BY Secretary rietcslf- CHANGE p.
Dected to AmeIiorstc II II Do,.
Not end Boycott.
Washington, Feb. 6.-Secretarv ot
Commerce Metcalf has taken act;e =,
which is expected to ameliorata oon
siderably the contention between th;.
country and China, and perhaps c.nss
abandonment of the anti. America
boycott, having approved the renort ~
the special committee composed ~
Assistant Secretary Murray, Solicitor
Sims and Richard Campbell, Of tho
bureau of immigration, providing for
revision Of the existing regulations
under which Chinese may reside in
this country.
The commission touches by way of
excision or amendment twenty-four Of
the existing regulations.
Besides certain ameliorations that
promise to avoid delay in landing Chi.
nese who apply for admission, other
alterations have been made where DOS.
sible, with view of avoiding action
that would seem offensive, provided
that the object intended by such regu-
lations could be accomplished other
wise.
As an illustration of this, the COM
mission recommended the discontinu.
ance Of the Bertillon system of iden-
ticfiation.
important Changes.
Some of the more important changes
in the regulations follow:
Prohibiting officers of the service
from boarding foreign vessels at Unit
ed States ports in enforcing Chinese
exclusion.
Chinese who have been denied ad-
mission to be advised by notice in
Chinese of their right to appeal.
Eliminating the rule giving to ad-
ministrative officers of the govern
ment the benefit of the doubt in every
doubtful case.
Extending the time within which
Chinese denied admission may file no.
tice Of appeal to the secretary Of COM
MERGE and labor.
Authorizing additional extension of
time where literal compliance which
the rule which extends the time for
perfecting the record on appeal would
cause injustice to the applicant or risk
defeat of the purposes of the law.
Permitting Chinese laborers claim
ing the right to leave the United States
and return thereto to apply to the i'm
migration officers most convenient, in
stead of requiring them to apply to
the officers at the port of departure.
Instructions to Be Given.
Directing officials to be certain that
every departing Chinese laborer fully
understands the import Of section 6'of
The act Of 1888, which provides that
be shall not be permitted to return to
the United States unless he has law
full wife, child or parent in the United
States and property therein to the
value of $1,000, or debts of like
amount due him, or pending settle
ment.''
Giving departing Chinese laborers
, copy of the Department. instruc-
lions and regulations regarding re-
turn notices.
Immediate admission Of returning
Chinese laborers who g.
tablish their right to admission.
fertilization of the return Of Chin
ese merchants going temporarily.
Simplifying the procedure regard
ing the departure and return of Chin
ese merchants visiting contiguous for
eign territory.
Omitting the rule probing for pho
tographs of the interior Of mercantile
establishments operated in connec-
tion with laundries and restaurants.
Omtfs Students Definition.
Omitting the rule defining the term
student"
Omitting the rule that no person
other than q seaman will be permitted
to land temporarily under bond.
Omitting the rule providing for the
admission Of persons proposing to par
ticipate in exhibitions authorized by
congress.
Allowing Chinese laborers found
within the United States without the
CERTIFICATES prescribed by law reas-
enable opportunity, under proper legal
surveillance, to produce surch certif-
Gates before being taken before judge
FOR commitment or trial, instead Of be-
ing subject to summary arrest, as pro-
Vided by the existing law.
Omitting the rule that Chinese per-
sons OF the exempt class, who, after
having resided in the country, be-
some laborers, shall be deported, and
also that with reference to- the issu-
ance Of Identification cards.
CONTRACT IS LET.
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