Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 494, 11 January 1902 — HONOLULU TO BE PORT OF ENTRY FOR THE CHINESE [ARTICLE]

HONOLULU TO BE PORT OF ENTRY FOR THE CHINESE

Fully Equipped Officers of Inspection Hay Be Established. (BECK TO IBFBKIIOBS Of 111 Suggested That Hawaii Deal With Chinese Question in Its Own Way. M;n:»t*r Wu Digs Up Treaty Clause and Protest* that Exclut.on Law K too Drastic and Humiliating to Merchant* and Traveler*. —Commission of Investigation. (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE ) WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 31 I M.l. < the terms of tnc new Chinese n bill, to be proposed by the init• : Pacific Coast delegation, Ho noh'.iti Is made one of the ports fpru/ich shicta Chinese may Min entry ro the United States. The others • San Francisco. N<-s York. Boston. New Orleans, Manila. Port Townsend. P" Hand. Or . and San Juan. P. K He purpose of the bill is to have I :> equipped inspection offices at t • fsirts. so that applicants may be thoroughly examined. In order to I -vent slipshod methods and conseU nt infrai tlons of the law. Chinese an forbidden entry at any other jairts f the United States. There is some talk among Eastern ( nun ssnien to the effect that Ha w.iil and the Philippines should lie ■ ft ’.i leal with the Chinese question in li t ir own fashion, without Intervention by Congress, the sole proviso I* rt I at the United States shall prelive the terms upon which the Chi- !• t may pass from thus*' groups to Mainland This, however, Is not ’ attitude of the majority, and the outlook is that the bill will I noted*, l Island possessions of the United ‘ Matt - treating all ns part of the United States Minister Wu Wants Commission. Minister Wu Ting fang, digging up a is. in the treaty of 18S0, which p . vi rtbes away for the Chinese min-' ■ter to make representations to this i.trv oncoming the operations of . i -n, has written a letter to Sectary Hay protesting against the ex s- t, law as being too drastic, too nitrating to Chinese merchants and travelers, and so forth. He is pretty »■!! tip to date, ig Wu, He keeps h I :g specs well nibbed. He has i .ned that the appointment of a - on in the matter of the Nl- . a rag n a .anal has never failed to set tie whole project back two or more ' . a i s So fie proposes that the Unit- • • States appoint a commission to In- ' -i'c i't the subject of Chinese excluSeeKs Congressional Investigation. ir his letter. Minister Wu says: Appealing to the provision of Arti-I ■ ■ f of the treaty of ISSO. already cited. I think it proper and incumbent upon Congress, b* tore acting upon the question of new legislation, to examine yyth eare into the hardship suf’■•red by the- Chinese subjects, and that this examination can best be 1e by a commission, who will visit w hvalities in the United Stair's «ht e Chinese most largely oongregat< and the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and by a personal investiga 1 t en axertain how the present laws 1 ird emulations affect the Chinese 1 r'l how their exclusion affects the , t altties in question I think such •n fstigation is due from Congress. ( ’ vew of the treaty stipulations, of t -ire of she Imperial Chinese > ' rtitnent anil of the great interests a i ' y if such a commission is I i ;Med I should hope that their report * «• satisfy Congress that further f • x M"n of Chinese from the United Sta 1 -- ... unnecessary. But if that dr 1 net occur, H ought to make plain to Congress that the present lawy» arc in violation of justice and him;unity and inflict upon the Chinese ( unnecessary hardships and indignities that they are not in harmony w th the treaties; that they work m- p

Jury to the interests of both countries, and shoo’d be materially modlt- i.” Mr Wu expresses the hope that President Roosevelt will transmit hit proposition to Congress with a favorable recommendation. Secretary Hay has sent the letter to Chairman Hilt of the House Committer- on Foreign Relations. Hitt was formerly opposed to Cbine«e exclusion. but has recently announced a change of heart, and now- says he will report the Pacific Coast bill and that It will undobutedly become a law. so far as the main features are concerned. WALTER E CLARK