The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-11
rmE CnIN ESE QUESTION.
United States Com missioners en- Route Z,
EPekin-Li II ung Chaug's Views.

United States Com mu iHsioners en- Route q
Pekin-Li II ung Chaug's Views.
TIgNTsIN, CHINA, September l6.-A
length the Commissioners appointed b!
the United States Government to review
the Burlingame Treaty have reached Tien
tsin en- route to the Capital, for which
city they will start this morning. Th'
Minister, Mr.. Angel, accompanies them
He and they arrived from Chefoo on tht
18Th inst, having been delayed for shor
time by an accident to the rudder Of the
Ashuelot in her passage down the Peihc
river. The ambassadorial party was &C
accommodated on board the Ashuelot and
Monocacy. During the absence Of Mr.,
Angel have had an interview with the
viceroy, Ii Hung Chang, according to the
purpose for which ! came down from
Pekin.
At the time appointed by his Excellency
was present at his yamen, where l was
received first by MIR. Nah, Chinese gen.
tleman who has taken his degrees in law
In France, and speaks French with remark.
able tiuency. He was interpreter in the
conversation which ensued between the
Viceroy and myself, and which lasted for
three.auarters ofan hour. This potentate,
one OF the moat powerful and irresponsi.
BILE OF Eastern rulers, lives in an unassum.
ing manner, and receiyes the visitors
whom he honsrs with an audience very
unostentatiously. 1t need not be i'm.
agined, however, that be Is always accessi-
BILE. The wall Of Chinese officialdom, is
hard TO scale, and foreign officials even
have often, in cases OF emergency, to creep
through breach. The Governor in this
instance conversed with much freedom, at
least on the question OF emigration, and his
suppositions as to the requirements OF the
United States Commissioners. Apparently
fairly well yersed in the labor question as
It exists in California, he, cannot imagine
thatthere ought to be any difficulty with
the Chinese laborers, and still less that
the treaty should be in ap sense open to
change or criticism. He said plainly that
the American Government must show
good reason before theauthorities in Pekin
would consent to an alteration. Heis evi.
dently profoundly irritated at the PROPOSE.
ton, and the more irritated that 1t should
come from q power friendly and not ad-
dicted to making unreasonable demands
from eastern nations,-a power which fur
nished the very Americana Chinese Am.
bsssador, Burlingame,w hose work It's now
soupht to. undo. And 1t must be under
stood that though Ii Hung Chang will not
be sppointed, as he was in the Brazilian
case, plenipotentiary, to meet the Com
mission yet hewill have much to do in the
adjustment. His power, even In the
Tsung Ii Yamen, Is still enormous. and
| in this case it will be felt. / mean, taat
| the wires will be pulled by him; that
he will be consuita5 on every move; and
there Is a possibility that the buriuess may
terminate quickly. Ii would have no OBJ
lection TO 20 90 far as to stay emmigration
| from China to the Pacific Slope for a GER
tain term altogether; 10 say: Make the
experiment OF how you can do without
the Mongolian inhux, which yolldeplore,
and then talk about the re.establishpenl
oil our treaty relations on the old basis
We will prevent our people from going to
yo.r shores for as long as you like TO sug'
aest. Afterwsrd, you will ask US TO renew
Our connections, aud il will be for us to
aceede or refuse.p These are LIS sent
ments. ThSY are the sentiments WI.
which he has inspiredthe Tsapg u Yapeni
and tho ideas that unless coercion Is eyer
cised our treaty,lnakers will most prob:
ably have to conform to. Rortheir part,
believe that they would not be likely tc
reppdjate such an arrangement, and
hence, as have just said, there Is q
chance Of the mission terminating earlier
thcn was at one time imagined possible
and more to the satisfaction Of both sides
than could have been believed. But, II
whatever way the matter concludes, L
will eyer entertain certain contempt tol
the proposal, r-tA