The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
A Full Text Of the Presidents Message
Respecting Treaty Rights Of
Chinese Subjaots.
individual Tlardships Due to Ambiguous
and Defective Acts Of Congress
Conditions Physically 1inpos.
sibie to Performs
THE MESSAGE.

THE MESSAGE.
WASHINGTON, April 7.-The following
is the full text Of the Presidents message
sent to the Senate yesterday respecting the
treaty rights of Chinese subjects:
To tho Senate and House of Representatives
OF the United States:
of Congress, with view to appropriate legls.
lstion In the premises, a report OF the Secre-
tary of State, with certain correspondence
sSJe subIects other than than labcrors s to dd 20 and
come Of the own free will and q.
cord: In my annual message Of the sth
plication Of the acts lately passed to ex-
ecute the treaty Of 1890, restrict We Of the
imm grafton Of Chinese laborers in the
have occurred beyond the power Of the Ex.
ecutive to remedy and call ng for judicial
determination" These cas9s Of individual
fective provisions Of the acts Of Congress
approved respectively on the 9Th Of May,
its. and eth of July, 1854.
remeded by the action of the courts. In
other cases, however, where the phraseology
Of the statutes has appeared to be conclusixe
GERS charged with tho execution of the law,
Chinese persons expressly entitled to free
admission under the treaty have & been re.
whence they came. without being afforded
any opportun ty to show their right to their
privilege of free inEress and egress which It
the language OF one Of the decis ons Of the
Supreme Court, to which have referred:
w e to Se
execute the treaty .stipula tons and rccog-
nizing the fact that they secure to certain
States etended 70 nsee @ iau s S de-
pend upon tho performance of conditions
which. it was physically impossible to per-
The act Of July s. 1854, impose. such an i'm.
possible condition n not providing for the
adm sston. under proper certificate. OF
the cases most likely to arise IN ordinary
cofnmerc al intercourse. Article l of the
treaty prov des that the limitation shall ap-
states S as .
that Chinese subjects whether proceeding
to the United states as teachers, students,
niowea to TO ana come Of ther ows
free will and accord and be granted
all the privileges accorded to citizens
ch act Of sa to
secure this right by means OF certificates of
their status. which certificates shall be the
entry into the United States but it provides
for the issuance of certificates in two cases
only. namely. Chinese departing from China
Of some government other than China. A
statute Is certainly most unusual which,
purporting to execute treaty with China in
tiles as IL regards subjects Of other govern
ments than China.
] call tho attention Of Congress to the fact
numerous class Of On nese persons, subjects
Of other countries than China, who desire to
come from such countries to the United
country where they res de ard trade, yet II
such q Chinese subject. head Of 4 house at
Kong Kong. Honolulu. Havana or Colon de-
A<nN tpr,s A@ nprat
sorbed form Of certificate n English, issued
by the Chinese Government Ii there be at
he place OF residence no representative Of
tiacate. ho can obtnin none, and is by
e the United States There being.
persons may prove their exemption. the Sec.
retarv Of the Treasury undertook to remedy
the omiselon bv recognizing as lawful certifi-
diplomatic officers at the foreign port when
advised BY the United States Consul. This
seems Just application Of the spirit Of the
law. He, however, went beyond the epirit of
the apt ~ providing circular dated Janu-
certificate by tho United statcs Consul At the
representative. For It 10 clear that the inter-
ventiOn OF the UE ted States Consul was in
tended BY the not to be supervisory only: i
circular, and this was dons CO. the 18th OF
June following. by strik.nS ou, the clause
prescrl6ing original certin. aNoiI BY United
States COnsuls. -lMt WI.
his note OF March ~, 1Sa6, ts that tho Chinese
merchant. Lay Sang. OF King Lee ! Co.. San
Francisco. having arrived at San Francisco
from Hong Kong and exhib tod a certificate
of the United States Consul at Hong Kong as
to his status as q merchant. WAS refused
permission to land and aont back to Hong
Kong While his certificate was insufficient
under the present law. IL IL to be reInem
bered that there is at Hong Kong no repre-
sentative of China competent to issue the
required cert ncate.
The intent OF Congress to execn.s the
treaty H. thus defeated and c0nditi0ns are
exacted by the act which. In the words Of the
to perform This anomalous feature should
he reformed in order that the recurrence of
tion removed which would otherwise rest
upon the good faith of the United States in
the execution of their SOLEMN engagements.
s4 GROVER CLEVELAND.