| Show LAND REVIEW the chinese and the P public domain editor deserts news The phinese Chinese question is just juat at present the all absorbing topic of public and political discussion and a bil prohibiting the immigration into this country ot of chinese persons has been passed by congress sud and is now before the president who will probably y 6 sign agu it novi now that official information of the injection by the chinese Ceh inese government govern me it of the treaty recently proposed has been received k t quite a flutter of excite excitement meAt was created a few days ago by the announcement no sn in the public prints that i assistant commissioner anderson andersen of the beneral land office had bad wondered ien dered a decision to the effect that a chinaman who in 1887 declared his bis intention to become a citizen of the united states could legally initiate afonie a homestead entry it is quite certain that whatever may have been the foundation upon which the rumor was based and whatever may have been the opinion of the assistant commissioner upon the subject at the time of the publication no such da decision was promulgated an and that officer is now firmly firm of the opinion that unless a chinaman can con clu elusively show that he had declared his intention tb become a citizen of the united states prior to the amendment of the naturalization laws in 1875 lit he eap can never become qualified to make an entry elury of public lands under any of the laws where citizenship is a pre site it appears that the district land officers in one of the territories permitted three who had filed their declarations of df citizenship in 1883 to make a mineral land entry and t the he case came before the assistant commissioner for consideration his judgment was emphatically recorded against the legality of such an entry and an order of cancellation was made at once no holding for cancellation with privilege of appeal was made out the entry was canceled outright without a word in the decision about the right of appeal on the ground that only citizens of the united states staches and those who had legally declared their intentions to become such can make entry for mineral lands and that as the revised statutes as amended by the act of 1875 excluded Mongo mongolians lians ans f ram the privilege of becoming citi zens the entry was illegal and utterly void very few haqq ever become citizens of the united states I 1 am informed that out of the chousa thousands nde that have come here only sixteen were F ever eer naturalized it if this bo be true trae and no c change a u e occurs in our naturalization laws tj the public domain will not be absorbed to any great extent by unless those sixteen prove unusually prolific in offspring N corp COPP |
