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Show Till: t'lllMsi: J(t tuMi: Tunt'hlneaeiiietlon I coming to the front lu n new form. Notwlth lauding Hie stringent eicluslon lawa relating tj the "C'eleallal'yel he I found plenty lu every illy In lb United Htatea Tho Tn miry Drpatl. ment sl Washington, aomo nouth ago, undertook to Investigate Hi nutter. nut-ter. 1 1 u as an open secret that Can vli furnished Hi vn. t majority of the Chine Immigrant to IhU eouutry. Acting Hecretary rtpaiilJIug mala a trlpnlonj the nirthwcelem frontier, lu order lo famlllarlto hlmaelf with the ftlluatiou, and, If p.u1h!e, tu ascertain towhat.xtent the immigration busl-nv busl-nv pnival'iHl. A large fa-co of do. teolhie siaval-ooiujIoyeilnnC'anadUri soil, to give Inf jriiutlon of Urn approach of groups of Chinamen to the United HUtM. It wat finally rstal llthnd lieyond all diub that CntiaJa win Udng usimI a r.itoraay tulhe United HtatM for the eutrsno of ceillitleaa "Celeellale." The uxilnalon act provide that n Chinaman found In tho Unlte.1 Htstce, unlo-4 uudor cottalu diidltlotis, must bo returiieil to tho country "from whkh home." Iletumliw Chliiaoieu to Canadi rove.1 frultltsw, for tiny nmn-aged nmn-aged to noma Uok nialu. Inordirto prevent uivcifully thu ndmlsslcn of thuo people, Atlorney-deuiralMlllir, a few woolm ngo, give un opinion lo thuellcit thot win us. Chinaman came lo thla country by way of Cam la, ho could not claim that II wo the country coun-try "from which live im lu no ei.rdaF.ie with this oilnlon it j re taken to aund Chinamen Imk to their own country, but Ihey pruteslej, hiroj i liajcrs, nnd took Iho miller I. m American court. Atut n week ago a, lest i-ase wa brooght before Judge Hwtn, of the lederal district court! Hilroit. Mich and he decided that Canada was the country from which the Chinamen came. Thl declilon, of coiireu, nulll ties the opinion of the Attorney General, Gene-ral, and unlii It can lio reverse.! by a higher court, nil th Chinee exclusion legislation 1 little moro thin good for nothing. A Washington dispatch rayt that thl end of the onlroversy mean much to Canala In the way of reve hue, as tho Domlnlan will now he erne a thoroughfare (for Chinamen en rout to thl country, each or whom pay JV head tax to Canada four shiploads of Chinamen arrlvoat Vancouvir every month I'rom Jan I to July 18, IS9I, T9D0 Chinamen landed, alid of th) TOW were ell route lo thl." United Htatcf. Canada nude 1,0e) l.y this little tratllc. Now thai there I practically tio restriction re-striction to the trade, It I expected thai Canada will real I to )l,tXK,Ouo annually an-nually wllhoul any excuse, except theealarlta of ft few customs oftlcen who will receive tho cosh and turn II over to the Dominion treasury. |
