D. C.: Through a telegraphic dispatch from Washington James I. Dumn. chief inspector of the Chinese bureau at San Francisco is accredited with having made hfore the honorable Senate Committee of Immigration the following statement: "Passengers denied admission are apt to be held anywhere from three weeks to six months. as in almost every such case an appeal is taken to the Secretary of the Treasury. and the delays are caused by the action of the attorneys engaged in this business. who have no scruples as to the methods applied in fighting their cases. in holding up the Chinamen for all that can be obtained from them. and pursuing tactics which would not be permitted in any court and which place this class of attorneys quite outside of the pale of legal practitioners. I do not hesitate to say that many of the attorneys with whom we have to deal are absolutely unscrupulous and engage in the promotion of fraudulent cases to such an extent that they can not find empinynent in the respectable practice of the law." The undersigned attorneys and counselors at law of San Francisco. practicing in the State and Federal courts. who at times have business before the Chinese bureau. and to whom the abovequoted language by inference may be held to refer. beg leave to reply thereto. The statement that the undersigned act in other than an upright manner in the presentation of their cases or that they pursue unscrupulous methods or tactics which would not be permitted in any court of justice is absolutely and unqualiliedly false and malicious.
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Lawyers representing Chinese immigrants are accused of unscrupulous and fraudulent behavior.