IN RE LINTNER.
Tn re LINTNER. (DIstrict Oourt, S. D. California. No. 466CHINESE-WARRANT FOR ARREST-EXECU'l·ION OF GEARl' AcT-JUDICIAL COGNIZANCE.
August 80, 1893.)
A warrant for the arrest of a Chinese person under the act of September 13, lSS8, (25 Stat. 476,) will not be refused by a district judge, who bas no judicial knowledge that the executive department is without the funds necessary to deport such person .under the Geary act (Jf May 5, 1892, (27 Stat. 25.)
Application by William F. Lintner for a warrant for the arrest of Ah Wong, a Chinese person. Granted. WilloughbyOole, for applicant. ROSS, District Judge. An application has been made to me, as judge of the United States district court for the southern district of California, based upon a complaint to which the asks to be sworn, for the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of one Ah Wong, charged with a violation of the sixth section of the act of congress entitled "An act to prevent the coming of Chinese persons into the United States," approved May 5, 1892, and commonly known as the "Geary Act." That section of that act was involved in the case of Fong Yue Ting v. U. S., 149 U. S. 698,13 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1016, and its validity sustained by the supreme court; and there is also in force, as decided by the district court for this district ou the 30th day of June, 1893, in the case of U. S. v. Wong Dep Ken, 57 Fed. Rep. 203, section 13 of an act entitled "An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States," approved September 13, 1888, (25 Stat. 476,) a part of which section reads as follows: "Tbat any Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent, found unlawfully in the United States, or its territories, may be arrested upon a warrant issued upon a complaint, under oath, filed by any party on behalf of the United States, by any justice,' judge, 01' commissioner of any United States court, returnable before any justice, judge, or commissioner of a United States court, or before any United States court, and when convicted, upon a hearing, and found and adjudged to be not one lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States, such person shall be removed from the United States to the country whence he came. But any such Chinese person convicted before a commissioner of a United States court may, within ten days from such conviction, appeal to the judge of the district court for the district."
I, therefore; while much regretting that the application has been made to me, feel it my duty, under my oath of office, and in view of the obligations resting upon me to administer the laws of the United States in all cases properly brought before me, to award the warrant, upon a verification of the complaint, in the absence of any judicial knowledge that the department of the government charged with the execution of the provisions of the act of May 5, 1892, is not provided with the means to carry out its provisions. Were I so advised, I would not hesitate to refuse the warrant, for it is plain that
688
FEDERAL REPORTER.
vol. 57.
the executive department of the government cannot execute tlie orders of the judges directing .the deportation of OhinaDlen who failed to registerpursuallt to the provisions of section. 6 of the act of May 5, 1892, unless congress gi'ves it the money with which to send them away. Without the necessary funds, the executive department 'Would be manifestly powerless; and no judge, in my opinion,should order into custody, for deportation, any Ohinaman whom he judicially knows cannot be deported by the executive department, for want of the necessary means. Such a course would not only strongly tend to embarrass the adprlnistration, but, it is pertinent to ask, what, iIi that event, would become of such Ohinamen? They could not be put in the penitentiary at hard labor, as provided· by section 4 of the Geary act, for the reasons given in the recent opinion of the district court of this district in the case of U. S. v. Wong Dep Ken, j\p.dany unreasonable detention of them by the officers would doubtless entitle them to discharge on corpus. .!I,J. the case last mentioned the defendant writs of was found and adjudged to be unlaWfully in the United States, and was therefore.,ordered deported, and was deported by the executive department;$'d, nothing to the contrary appearing, it is to be presumed that the same department is possessed of similar means the deportation of any other Ohinaman or Ohinamen legally found and adjudged to be unlawfully in this country, and for that reason legally ordered to be deported. For these reasons, upon the proper verification of the complaint, the warrant for the arrest of the person complained oimust be issued.
IJNITED STATES
T.
OHUM SHANG YUEN.
(DIstrict Court, S. D. California. September 5, 1893.) OBno!:BB-FuNDB FOR DEPORTATION-JUDICIAL COGNIZANCE-NOTICE FROM AT
Congress having appropriated funds for the enforcement of the prov!.of the Geary act, a district judge should take judicial cognizance that there are funds for the enforcement of any or all of the sections of such act, and should order the deportation of a Chinaman who has not procured certificates of residence. as required by section 6. although the attorney general has In,formed such judge "that there are no funds to , execute the Geary law, so far 8S the same provides for the deportation I "of Chinamen who have not obtained certificates of residence," I
TORNEY GENERAL.
Proceeding for the deportation of Chum Shang Yuen for viola· tion of tbe sixth section of the Geary act. Order of deportation gl.'p.nted. . t· George J. Denis, U. S. Atty. G.'Wiley Wells, for defendant. ROSS, District Judge. Pursuant to tne provisions of section 13 of an act of congress entitled "An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States," approved September 13,