ibit of her wonderful art
works.

A resolution was therefore passed, that the Chinese Exclusion Law shall
not be held to prevent the landing of Chinamen who are going to exhibit at
the Exposition, or whose labor is necessary to prepare the exhibit.

The bill, happily, adds that Chinamen coming to this country on Exposition
business must have a special permission from the Secretary of the Treasury
before they will be allowed to land, and that they can only stay in the
country one year after the close of the Exposition. If found in the
country after that time, they will be arrested, and then sent back to
China.

This was too fine a chance for the Chinese to miss. They started for this
country by the hundred, all declaring that they had special business at
the Fair.

Word was sent to the Secretary of the Treasury that over 2,000 Chinamen
had started for these shores to get the exhibit in order. This seemed so
serious, that the Government began to look into the matter.

Several weeks ago 179 of these undesirable immigrants came into the United
States, and another batch of one hundred and fourteen are waiting to
enter.

As you may suppose, such an invasion as this had to be stopped, and
stopped quickly.

The Secretary of the Treasury sent to the Attorney-General, and asked him
whether, under the new resolution, any and every Chinaman had to be
admitted to this country, or whether he had power to limit the number.

Mr. McKenna, the Attorney-General, gave it as his opinion that the
Secretary of the Treasury has full power to say how many shall be allowed
to enter the country.

The Secretary, Mr. Lyman Gage, then inquired of the Exposition company how
many Chinamen were really necessary to do the work for the Fair. Word was
sent back that only two hundred were required.

On receipt of this, the Secretary of the Treasury determined to put a stop
to the matter at once, and forbade the issuing of permits to more than the
necessary two hundred.

There will be great disgust among the Chinese; the first batch of 179 got
through safely, but only 21 of the second lot will be admitted, and the
rest of them will have to go back to the Flowery Kingdom, sadder but wiser
men.

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News has come that the town of Guthrie in the new Territory of Oklahoma
has been destroyed by a flood.

The Cottonwood River, which flows through the town, had been so high for
some days that it was feared i