Correspondence Between Acting Inspector in Charge at New Orleans, Louisiana, Edwin B. Schmucker and Commissioner-General F. P. Sargent Regarding an Article in a Chinese Newspaper Concerning Abuse of C
9/7/1905
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These records are part of a series consisting of correspondence mainly originating with the Bureau of Immigration and its predecessors relating to cases involving registration, arrests, deportations, smuggling, and exclusion of Chinese immigrants; certain proposed changes in exclusion laws with model drafts; certificates of residence; and appointments, salaries, duties, and jurisdiction of officials in charge of Chinese immigration.
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MORGAN”S LOUISIANA & TEXAS RAILROAD ANDSTEAMSHIP CO.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT
F.E. BATTURS,
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT
New Orleans, La., Sept. 7, 1905.
-: Movement Chinese Aug. 4th :-
Mr P. H. Stratton,
Inspector in Charge,
United States Immigration, New Orleans, La.
Dear Sir:—
Beg to pass you herewith a translation of an article appearing in a newspaper in San Francisco. I have written our people telling them that I thought that there was some influence brought to bear at that end of the line to hurt this traffic through this gateway, and that I felt satisfied that the Chinese could have no complaint of their treatment by your men.
Yours truly,
(signed) F.E. Batturs
We want to notify our brethren, the Chinese in the United States of our hardships and ill-treatment by the United States Officers of Immigration when we landed in New Orleans from the steamship from Havana, Cuba. There was 37 men on the same voyage to go to China, some of them were respectable merchants. Soon as the ship arrived at the wharf we were transferred to the train of the Southern Pacific R.R. Co., New Orleans, La. we were penned up like prisoners and cruelly ill-treated and insulted like criminals. We appealed to the Chinese interpreter to treat us more kindly, more like we were human beings, but to no avail. There is no race of people in the World which has been subjected to the unreasonable and unkind treatment as our people by the United States Immigration Officers. When we landed in San Francisco, Cal., we found our packages and trunks all broken open and valuable things stolen by them, set not less than Twenty to Fifty Dollars lost by every man.
Your true friends
Kwan Quong Lun, Tsu Fook, Wong Chew, Lee Sing, Wong Fook, Geo. Chew, Kwan Bon, Wong Yuen, Lee Mon, Wong Yam Fook, Lok Hee, Ho Wing, Chum Sok
This primary source comes from the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
National Archives Identifier: 19086695
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