People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — MORE TIME FOR THE CHINESE. [ARTICLE]

MORE TIME FOR THE CHINESE.

Bill Extending the Provisions of the Geary Law Six Months Passed by the House. Washington, Oct lb.—By a vote of 120 to 10, the house on Monday passed the McCreary bill, with amendments offered by Mr. Geary and Mr. Caminetti. The bill as passed extends the provisions- of the Geary law six months, defines Chinese laborers and Chinese merchants, • makes mandatory photographic identification, requires marshals to carryout orders for deportation, holds Chinamen without bail pending the execution of deportation writs, and excludes Chinamen convicted of felony from permission to register. Mr. Geary declares that the bill as passed is perfectly satisfactory to the coast, and if enforced at the expiration of the time limit, will settle the Chinese problem. Those who depart will not be able to transfer their registration certificates and in the course of time will disappear from these shores. The administration is also satisfied with the bill, so Chairman McCreary, of the foreign affairs comm ttee, avers. After the disposition of the Chinese bill the bill to prevent officers and directors of national banks from borowing from their banks without written permission of a majority of the directors occupied the time of the house until adjournment