The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-28
TELEGRAPHIC
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
The question Is, Will she
Presidents Sign the Bill?

Washington. 26. Forney's Sunday
Chronicle has the following The action
Of the President on the Chinese bill is
looked forward to with considerable in
tsrest. The statement that the subject
will be considered ct Tuesdsy's cabinet
meeting ia made on good authority. and
is doubtless correct. The persons best
gu allied to Judge in the matter give their
opinion that the President will unquea-
tienAbly sign the bill, a. it is probable
that it would otherwise be passed over
his head.
New York, 27.-ITf6une's Washing
ton: Representative Gambler, Of Mssss-
chuEetts, has received a telegram from
Phillips. which he will ask leave to have
read in the House tomorrow. It is rs
follows: I am not candidate Of any
party. Years ago I published in Cali
fornis, my detestation of all restrictions
Of Chinese immigration as inconsistent,
absurd and wicked.
WENDALL PHILLIPS.
The anti-Chinese bill has been sent to
the President, but it is not probable that
he will act on it until after the regular
cabinet meeting on Tuesday. There APP
pears to be no reason to believe that he
will veto it.
The Mail and Express Washing cn
correspondent says: Ex-senator Eaton,
who wss chsirman of the committee on
foreign relations of the Senate when the
American Chinese treaty was framed,
said to-day that he does not regard the
text Of the bill which has just passed
both houses as Antsgonistic to the spirit
tar laftnp ~ tho fraof~ ovnoaf in The -.
ticular that the twenty years. suspension
clause is an excessive period and not
consistent with what the treaty designs as
reasonable time" The ex-senator ID
also authority for the statement that
President Arthur entertains similar
views on this point and may possibly
veto on that ground. Should he do so,
Eaton thinks Congress will promptly
amend the period Of Limitation to ten
years, in which it would pass the House
under suspension of the rules.
A Washington special 10 the CONNER
ciGL Advertiser, says: Members Of the
New Jersey delegation say that Secretary
FreliDghuysen is opposed to the approval
Of the Chinese bill and that he will advise
the President to veto it. The Chinese
minister and Secretary Frelinghuysen
have talked over the provisions OF the
bill and il 10 understood the former takes
the ground that some of its provisions
are in direct violation Of the treaty stipu-
lations. He maintains that the provision
that there shall be suspension Of the
emigration Of Chinese to the United
States for q reasonable time, cannot be
construed a. covering the period Of
twenty years. While the minister has
been and is now very cautious in what
he says and in allowing his views to be-
come public, Jet the opinion exists among
the diplomatic corps, based upon salts
factory information, that the signing Of
the bill now before the President will be
followed by prompt action on the part Of
the Chinese government looking to the
abrogatioa of the entire treaty. No deubt
is entertained as to the position Of the
Chinese government on this question.
knowledge Of this fact will, it is believed,
have considerable influence with the
Prelident in settling the question whether
the bill shall be signed or vetoed.