Deseret Evening News | 1900-02-01 | Page 7 | Calls Them Misstatements

CALLS Premier or of British ColumbIa Speaks or of Claims or of ChIcago Fob special to the tho TrIbune Victoria It ii C e Premier today presented to the legislature th tim answer ot of hIli gov government O to the petition of the American mIners in n Atlin to Pres President dent against the tho alien exclusion act neL The premiers letter leller to the secretAry ot of says the statements In n the peti petition ion tion that of at tM the claims In Athin Allin were prospected nail located by AmerIcans and that citizens ot of tile the States lost millions through the passage ot of the riot net are exaggerations and misstatements the tho sald We would say Bay un uny rights acquired b by bythe the petitioners hare hlo h licen n preserved to them The 1110 le complained or of specifically u exempts all claims prIor to its passage und and provides for forthe forthe the unimpeded working of such uth claim by the tho although aliens A ret Cf to the tho mIning laws will show that their whole tenor is II a as It must be that no acquired until IL a chum Is II recorded A As already stated all such rights arc Aro scrupulously respected It nay may lIe If wen well to note nota this As R a casual reader of the petition un unacquainted acquainted with the facts might no na turan suppose that claIms had been confiscated