Show naturalizing NATURAL IZING CHINESE so that they might blight be permitted to enter tho the knitel 1 states proves unavailing washington sept 23 A short time ago the collector of custode at port townsend washington wrote the treasury department part ment for instructions in the case cas a of one ching yon ft a chinese who claimed to be a british subject and applied for admission to the united states ag as such exhibiting in g a certificate of naturalization issued at V vancouver C auver the collector expressed his opinion that this was a test case and if it the man mail was allowed to enter tho tile author authorities itic on the other ride of the line would begin at once to make british citizens of the chinese to evade our restriction law assistant secretary spaulding in reply informs the collectors that the naturalization of a chinese person by an adjacent country would not qualify such a person to enter tho tile united states and instructs him to decline to con consider sider the tile papers mentioned as in ill any manner clia chan RinK the status of such per person ion as far as admission nging into the united Stat baates esis is concerned an official odthe of the treasury department said aid this afternoon it was a debu table if this action of the department in ill refu refusing in g to 0 recognise recognize the british nat naturals tion of chinese inese persons is not in conflict with the treaty with great britain whereby its subjects arc are allowed to enter and leave the tha united states at any time tinie |