People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — CAN’T COME BACK. [ARTICLE]

CAN’T COME BACK.

Chinese Authorities Refuse to Allow Chinese Who Have Been Here Once to Return to the United States. Washington, July 17.—A letter received at the state department from Mr. Derby, the United States minister to China, was accompanied by a proclamation issued by the Chinese authorir ties in which it was stated that 100,000 Chinese who had returned to China from the United States within the past year would be prevented by the law from again entering this country. An investigation by the treasury department has developed that since 1888 less than 81,000 Chinese have returned to their native country and the exaggeration of the proclamation is still more apparent when taken in consideration with the well-known fact that only a small proportion of Chinese leave this country with the intention of returning. Undek the influence of increasing foreign immigration, Philadelphia is losing its right to the title of the City of Homes. In 1890 there were living in that city 55,600 persons huddled together, sixteen to a dwelling. There were found to be 10,000 families living in tenements. As p. result of this exhibit, there is a clamor in Pbiladelpfliia for a rigid enforcement of existing health laws requiring owners of tenements to place them in sanitary condition. A new ordinance is also demanded as a result of the exhibit which shall require a certain oubic air space for each occupant of a tenement house.