Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS Evading the Chinese Law San Francisco 15 Suspicions for some time past have existed that many Chinese have been permitted bo land from Chinese steamers Who under the restriction act are not entitled to that privilege A loop hole has been discovered under article ar-ticle second of the treaty which permits any Chinaman other than laborers to come to the United State if provided with a certificate issued by the Chinese government identifying him as engaged in other pursuits than that of a laborer The Rio Janeiro which arrived on Saturday Sat-urday brought 132 Chinamen for San Francisco seventy seven of whom held traders certificates issued is-sued by the officials of the Chinese government Notwithstanding the strongest external evidence of their being ignorant Chinese laborers they were all with the exception of six permitted to land The steamer Coptic which arrived last month brought 114 Chinese fiftyfour of wbom held similar certificates issued by officials of the Chinese customs Fully 90 per cent of both lots belonged be-longed to the common class of workmen work-men When that circumstance was called to the attention of the customhouse custom-house officials here the reply was that they had no power to go back of the Chinese governments certificate certif-icate |