Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — GEARY LAW A FAILURE. [ARTICLE]

GEARY LAW A FAILURE.

Unregistered Chinese Cannot Be Deported for Lack of Funds. At a Cabinet meeting, Tuesday, It was decided th at, owing to the lack of an appropriation sufficient for the purpose, the Geary Jaw will not for the present be enforced. Chief Justice Fuller dissents from the Supreme Court decision, Secretary Carlisle showed that but 116,000 remained of the 1100,000 appropriation for the enforcement of the law, and that Its provisions could not be complied with for less than 16,000,000. It is evident that the administration is surprised with the decision of the Supreme Court and embarrassed by the situation. Officials who are posted fear that the effect of the enforcement of ►the law will be serious and far-reaching, and think that China will surely retaliate. The Chinese Six Companies have asked for a suspension of the law, and this will be probably granted for a time, although it is known that one-third the Chinese now in the country have come in Illegally, through fraudulent certificates provided by the Six Companies. In fact, the Six Companies, it is asserted, have practically mortgages upon the labor of thousands of Chinamen for years to come, and if they be now deported the Six Companies will lose hundreds ol thousands of dollars advanced by them to Chinese immigrants* Secretary Gresham declines to discuss the matter.