AUTHORITIES HELPLESS

An Influx of Coolies From Hawaii.

Exclusion Laws of This Country Evaded by Contract Laborers.

The Times Special Service.

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday, June 28. -- More than 200 Japanese arrived here yesterday in the steerage of the steamer China. They came from Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands, where they have been working on the plantations.

This influx of coolie labor from the Hawaiian Islands is alarming the immigration authorities, but they state that they are powerless to stem the tide. Late steamers from the Orient have brought hundreds of Japanese, who come here from the Hawaiian Islands. The immigration officials are unable to deny the Asiatics landing because of their coming from a port of the United States.

In addition to bringing the Japanese from Hawaii to this country the Oriental liners carry large numbers of contract laborers from Japan to Honolulu. On her last voyage the Hongkong Maru landed over 400 Japanese in Honolulu. The demand for contract laborers on the sugar plantations is probably responsible for the large number of Japanese who are landed in Honolulu. As a subterfuge these coolies were kept for a month of so on the plantations and then taken to the mainland. The Hawaiian Islands thus provide a means for the laborers to evade the exclusion laws of this country.