Show A ACW rnase or the Chinese yuesuon WASHINGTON May Assistant Secretary Secretar Tichenor In response to the Senate resolution calling for information relative to the evasion of the law prohibiting Chinese emigration to day sent to the Senate reports from special Niagara agents along calls the attention border to Agent a phase Whitehead of the sub at jcct which he says is likely to become a serf 2 qu st on Chmese persons are fonnrl ser luny Canada within the United States smuggled from and they do not have certificates show ing that they have paid the certfcates customs tax of 15 a head How are they to be returned to the country whence they came The Do minion customs officers refuse to admit such persons into Canada without proper certificates and our officers will then have to choose ates be tween smuggling them back smugglng or placing them on bridges connecting the two countries where fore they release are certain to suffer much discomfort be Special Agent Brooks under date of Toronto May 1 says he has creditable information that during the past year upwards of two hundred Chinamen have been unlawfully sent into this country from Canada |