Peculiar Position of Chinese The new United States immigration law which became effective July 1 has been embarrassing not only those seeking: admission to America for the first time, but to American citizens returning from long residence abroad who previous ly had no family.
Within the past two months a citizen went from Australi to San Francisco, with his Australian wite, and to his surprise, the immigration officials refused to permit her to enter, A similar ease oceurved before that, when an American brought home an Italian wife. is common knowledge that technically the root of the matter lies in the individual eitivenship of the American woman since they received the franchise. But singularly enough, it would appear that the*Chinese are in a peculiar position. As reported in our "Day-to-Day" columns, Federal Judge Neterer in Seattle held on September 23. that the Ammigration Bill does not abrogate the Treaties of 1880 and 1894, and corps involved under restrictive measures.
This is the first judicial interpretation of the Act velating to admission of Chinese. The prohibitive clause in the treaty of 1804 is modified to the following extent-—"shall not apply to" the return to the United States of any registered. Chinese labourer who as a lawful wife, child or parent in the U. 8. or property therein of the value of $1,000, from the Royal Stock Farms in. Britain as a calf last year, Pens of Shropshire and Hampshire sheep entered by the Prince ranch captured blue ribbons for ewes and rams in the Hampshire class, and championships for ewes in the Shropshire class at the Regina show.
'The E. P. Ranch, where the Prince will spend a month's vacation, is about 60 miles from Calgary' and covers 6,000 acres. It is stocked with. pure bred race horses, Dartmoor ponies, _shorthorn cattle, Shropshire and Hampshire sheep—Reuter's American Service,
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