Show T troublesome MUM CHINESE A source of great to the nt officials i Ls operations of the sly celes alas in th the wo kio arz grande amae country effects of the exclusion law in no section of this country did the chinese exclusion act entail such haru haro ship the esmond almond eyed residents of the united states as it did along the rio grande in texas inthe in the revenue district of the rio grande there were previous to last june about one thousand el plathe pasa the main port of olf entry from mexico claimed seven hundred and fifty of these and san antonio an inland city one hundred and ten the rest are scattered about I 1 three or four in each I 1 little ittle town in the dist district brict it was found by the revenue officers that not over four hundred of these were entitled to remain in the united states and the other six sis hundred 0 o der deported ted either to china or to mer 1 they came to this boua country from that republic says harper s cealy el paso was allot allotted ton ten thousand three hundred and thirty eight iii inhabitants h bi by the census of 11 W and the business interests of the city are nearly entirely dependent upon the transfer of goods fromor from or into mexican territory two wagon wag on bridges and one railroad bridge connect american with mexican at times the rip rio grande is so low that it can be crossed almost dry shod railroads reach to tho the north east west and south affording quick and easy transit in any direction so that it is an ideal smuggling point notwithstanding the sleepless vigilance of the revenue officers the smuggling trade os as sames formidable proportions and it is largely duo due to this fact that the chinese element forms so large a proportion of the population the chinaman is an expert smuggler and devotes his energies to transferring opium tobacco silks mexican embroidery an and d dra drawn work brkl on all 0 of I 1 which articles there is a heavy tariff from mexican to states so soil il without paying duty thereon the most profitable article for smuggling has been in the past the chinaman himself and it was to prevent the wholesale importation of this thi class of goods that congress made the chinese exclusion law even more severe than it was under the act of in 1886 congress passed a law prohibiting the coming of of chinese laborers into the united states for a period of ton ten years and provided provi fled a penalty for bringing them in in this act a provision was made for certificates of identification for those already here which entitled them to come and go this act was easily evaded at el paso and doubtless elsewhere for john would show up one day in queue long shirt and wooden shoes and receive his hia certificate as hong and the next nest day the same mild looking oriental would put in an appearance dressed dressea allee samee me melicah man a ana aad ad receive his certificate as 1111 hing one of these certificates was naturally for sale and the price they thay brought ran at times as high as two hundred dollars across the river from el paso is the mexican city of el juarez there are arc many there as well who act as confederates of their countrymen across tho the river chief among them is doe doc sing who is rated commercially at about one hundred thousand dollars doch is king among them and with fertile wid and cunning brain he has engineered many a scheme whereby the Ahe revenues were nose none the richer or whereby the population of the united states was vms increased by one mongolian not really entitled to the protection ot 0 the stars and stripes wong ming is his chief lieutenant and is a resident of el paso where he ranks high as a business man wong ming has lived in the united states about seventeen years and is one of the few who have families to share the freedom of this country with them and he lives a retired retire dand and domestic we life these thees two are the authorities in the rio eio grande country among their own people and everything that comesup comes up for settlement among themselves or oran in the relations of the chinese to the americans is referred to them in october 1888 an act of congress went into effect abolishing the certini cato cata of identification this cut off a great source of revenue and th the importation poa por tation tiou of became simply a question of out and out smuggling in the exclusion law was extended to 1903 1902 this new law also provided that to remain in the united states a chinaman inet obtain a certificate showing that he was herein hero in on these certificates certini tes are photographs of their holc holders lers and the certificates cannot be obtained without the testimony of a reputable white man to the effect that the statements made by the chinaman are correct in the regist registration ti ration there w was great trouble at first in getting the pictures pic tares taken according to law the regulations as to size and costume be bein 13 6 very strict when wong ming and his family were about to be registered a new di diS culty arose the women according to their custom had never been seen by white kanand wore heavy leavy veils when upon tho the street the agent of the government agreed to a private audience and wong ming end and his wife her two sisters and his two year old child were vc vcr duly photographed and registered the amu smuggling ng of has by this new law been becu reduced to a minimum but the trade in contraband goods still keeps up owing to the thinly g guarded territory and the expertness pertness cx of the smugglers |