Show LATEST TELEGRAMS I CHINESE IMMIGRATION Set Killer DeletU flla Bill Washington4 is learnedfrom private letters received here that one of the main objections urged against Senator Millers Chinese billy bill-y the members of the San Francisco Fran-cisco Trades Assembly is that it > proposes to permit the Chinese now in this country to remain here ando and-o return to the United States if they so desire after they leave the land residing temporarily elsewhere else-where The hill provides that all Chinese who were residents of the United States on the 19th of last July when the treaty was ratified shall have the right to go and come at pleasure if they are properly reg istered and furnished with specified certificates from oar collectors of customs but in granting this exemption emption from its proprietary clause the bill simply conforms to the express ex-press stipulations of the treaty and it is perfectly clear therefore that this objection is made either in ignorance or in defiance of the treaty provisions under which every bill for a restriction of Chinese immigration must neces sari v be framed It is stated that sari r remarks with reference toot to-ot r and more intelligent criticisms of his measure and also to those concerning its methods of de term in ing what individual Chinese are entitled titled to admission as merchants ravellers or members of other exempted ex-empted classes that while he will be Very glad to receive suggestions he does not yet see how any better system can be devised than that which his bill proposes After speaking of the very marked division divi-sion of classes in China and the low estimate in which the laboring class is there held by all those who are socially above it and especially by the governing class he calls attention ention to the face that his bill provides pro-vides that no Chinese subject shall be allowed to enter our jurisdiction juris-diction without an individual certificate to be specially obtained tained in each case from the Chinese Chi-nese government fully identifying the holder and setting forth minutely min-utely that he belongs to a certain one of the exempted classes The certificate will not be accepted however how-ever as sufficient permission for the Chinese to land in the United States unless the genuiness and the truth of the facts therein stated and the identity of the persons named shall be attested after due examination examina-tion yby witnesses otherwise by our consul at the port of departure Moreover any Chinamen who gains admission to the United States by a false and fraudulant certificate is to expeled and all persons aiding or abetting his entry are subject to heavy fine and imprisonment Now Miller believes that these s cry provisions pro-visions which have been most criticized criti-cized are in fact the strongest features fea-tures of the bill In the first place it is to be noted that each permission = permis-sion and certificate must be obtained from the Imperial government the term Chinese governmentpurposely employed in order to make the certificates cer-tificates to issue from the foreign office like an American passpcrt which can be obtained only from the state department at Washington Washing-ton and in view of the well known difficulty and expense of gaining access ac-cess to or attention from the Pekin authorities it is believed that very few Chinese of the better class and probably no coolies whatever will be able to obtain the prescribed permission per-mission The senator also remarks ia this connection that the Chinese government in all such cases will be put upon its honor to see that no certificate is issued to any one who does not belong to one of the exempted classes and this may properly be considered an additional guard He calls attention in the next placa to the absolute veto power which the bill confers upon our consuls in regard to these certificates cer-tificates of the Chinese government and says in reply to the suggestion of a corrupt or careless use of this power that it is evident some such responsibility must be placed upon J some class of officers and if the consuls con-suls do not perform their duty they I I can most readily be removed by means of instantaneous recall orl kept fn check by the simple methods II meth-ods of supervisory inspection I |