Deseret Evening News | 1904-01-12 | Page 11 | Chinese Consulates

CHINESE CONSULATES President Orders aI borough a In lit 1 of Them Washington Jan 11 Tho president has hall ordered the tho slate department to tomake tomake tomake make a n thorough Investigation of ulna tho United States consulates at lIt Shanghai Canton lInton and Amoy For a n year charges have hoo been beell flying backward and forward affecting tho time conduct of ot the tho business at those UIO consulates anti the consuls them themselves selves have havo Indulged In mutual te re I J and charges that have made It evident to the state sluts depart department department ment officials that thero there Is IH need for tor n a thorough Investigation which will form torm tho the for or a 1 complete change of ot consuls In tho the orient The system of ot jurisdiction conferred upon the tho consuls run In the tho administration of this the consular courts Is and It will probably bo hI necessary l to frame framo nome come In Its place that will reduce tl a almost autocratic powers of or the con consuls suit and bring thorn Into Inlo closer responsibility to the he mile department Tho Th charges charge remd to lire are not new heat but as eat described In preceding dl patches relate to o charges rho rites for Cor mani manifests tests for tor of ot commercial papers rR and the line Issue of Identification papers to Chinese v sho ho 10 peon been go fO goIng fOIn Ing In Into Inlo the tho Philippines Tuft flirt long Ions ago complained to Washington of ot tho the practise of ot loose methods of oC regulating the tho admission of ot Chinese e to the Philip pines and of ot tho the opportunities of at frauds fraud II Involved Involved