Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-13
ANGELES ANNOUNCEMENT.
He Explains the Construction Placed rpon the
Treaty by the Commissioners.

DETROIT, April The Post and Tri-
bune, this city. contains to-day a report
OF an interview with President Angel,
OF the State University, who was the
United States minister who negotiated
the recent treaties with China. In re-
gard to the bill just vetoed BY the pres
ident. Mr.. Angel said he had neither
the time or inclination to become in
VOWED IN any controversy ON the mat
ter, but was willing to talk on the sub
lect. II see said he, that commits
sloner Swift says there was an
understanding that even as much as
thirty years prohibition would not be
considered unreasonable. | have no
recollection of any limit of time being
agreed to. When we first conferred
with the Chinese they spoke of limita-
tions of time and mum bers, but after
ward said they only intended to use the
expression by way of illustration. as,
Tor instance, asking what would be the
result If the Chinese were permitted 10
| come only on alternative years, or were
prohibited from coming for two or three
years. They asked us, too, what legis-
lation Congress would enact. We said
we could not tell. but said we wished to
make a treaty which would impose re-
strictions. Now that is the central
point in the whole matter: whether the
| twenty year limit in the vetoed bill was
a reasonable one or not; and that is
purely matter of opinion, on which
there can be no hope of unanimitv. Per-
sonally | think the twenty year limit too
long and would have voted against it if
1 had the opportunity. Probably |
would not have liked to favor longer
limit than five years myself, though
when | say that, / do not express my
final Judgment. have not thought It
over sufficiently to do so.
The purposes for which we were sent
to China We're in brief these. Nearly
every nation in the world has enforced
more or less stringent restrictions upon
the immigration of the Chinese. We
had surrendered our rights to impose
restrictions to great extent The
question of Chinese immigration had
been growing more and more serious in
the Pacific states particularly, and j,
was thought wise to frame treaty by
which the rights to limit should be re-
quired.
As to how the veto would be received
in China President Angel said there
will be no interest whatever on the sub
ject among the masses of the people, for
they know nothing about it, In the
foreign office there viii be great inter
est in it. The news has probably
reached Shanghai by this time. But
what the government would have
thought of the passage of the bill
cannot tell. The masses of the people
do not, | suppose, know that there is
such country as America. The immi-
grafton all comes from the provinces
near Canton, and from strip of eoun-
try about as large rs the New England
states. These people were a maratime
race, and became imbued with a spirit
of commerce and travel. Whether
they are imported by the six companies,
SO called. or whether they learn of Am
erica from their returned companions
| don know Both theories are stout
~ maintained. can hardly see how
the vetoing of the bill will cause an in
crease of immigration to this country,
for as | said, the people do not know
that there is such country as America
| suppose | could ask thousand Chi
namen whom | would meet in the street
at Shanghai as to whether any such
tning as Chinese immigration had been
discussed by them, and they would not
have known what ! was talking about.
The chief. difficulty in the whole Chi
nese question is the fact that these peo-
pie do not assimilate like Europeans,
NOR. do MT Gaatfa1s .1Nnr tho nj
if the 5000 Cinnamon in SanFrancisco
would remove to different parts of the
country instead of remaining there,
there would be no agitation and no
difficulty. But they are gregarious
race. In their own country they are
the same clannish race, with the most
bitter feuds existing between the differ
ent villages.