The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-02
THE CHINESE BILL.
Signed by President Cleveland
Becomes Law.
DELIVERED WITH A MESSAGE
poses to Permit Thos Who Have
Already Sailed to Land.
The Presidents Message.

dent sent the following message t.
Congress to-day:
l have this day approved the Hous
bill supplementary TO an act entitled
IAN Act to Execute Certain Treat,
Stipulations Relating to the Chinese,
approved the 9Th day of May, 1882.
1t seems to me that some sugges.
tions and recommendations may pro-
perly accompany my approval of thi
bill. The object is to more effectualIy
accomplish by legislation the exclusion
from this country of Chinese laborers
The experiment of blending the social
habits and mutual race idIosyncrasie:
of the Chinese laboring classes with
those of the great body of the United
States, has been proved by an expert
ence of twenty years and ever since
the Burlingame treaty of 1868, to be in
every sense unwise, impolitic and
| injurious to both nations. With the
lapse of time the necessity for its
abandonment has grown in force until
those having in charge the government
of the respective countries have resolved
to modify and sufficiently abrogate all
those features of prior conventional ar
| engagements, which permitted the con-
ing of Chinese laborers to the United
States. In the modification of priC I
conventions. the treaty of November II,
1880 was concluded, whereby in the
! first artic g thereof it was agreed that
the United States should at will regu-
late, limit or spend the coming of
| Chinese iaborers 10 the United States,
| but not absolutely prohibit it and undar
| this article, an act of Congress approved
on May 9th, 1882, amended July oh,
1884, suspended for ten years the COM
ing of Chinese laborers to the United
States and regulated it to the going and
coming of such Chinese laborers as at
that time were in the United States. IL
was, however, soon made evident that
the mercenary greed of the parties who
were
TRADING IN LABOR
of this class of Chinese population. was
proving too strong for the just x,cu-
ton of the law, and that the virtual de.
feat of the object and intent of both law
and treaty was being fradulently &C.
SOA4AP lAoh ~ Ny AoASO P4OGCAoC ddu per
jury, contrary to the expressed will of
botn governments. To such an extent
has the successful violation of the treaty
and laws enacted for its execution, pro-
crossed that the courts in the Pacific
States have been for some time past
overwhelming by the examination of
cases of Chinese laborers, who are
charged WI having entered our ports
under fraudulent certificates of return or
seek to establish by perjury the claim Of
prior residence. Such demonstrations
of the imperative and inefficient con-
dltlon OF The treaty and law has pro
ducei deep-seated and increasing dis
content among the people of the United
5 tates and especially with those resident
on the Pacific Coast. This has induced
me to omit no effort to find an etfec u al
remedy for the evils com planned of and |
to answer the earnest popular demand
for the absolute exclusion of Chinese
laborers, having objects and purposes
unlike our own aud wholly discon-
nected with American citizenship.
Aided by the presence in this country |!
of able and intelligent diplomatic and |
consular officers of the Chine Sc govern |
ment and representatives made from |
time to time by our Minister in China |
under instructions of the Department |
Of State, the condition of public senti-
ment and the status of affairs in the |
United States has been fully known 10 |
the government of China.
THE NECESSITY FOR REMEDY
has been fully appreciated by that gov
'rnment and in August, 1885, our Min
ster at Peking received from the Chi
lese foreign Office, a communication
announcing that China, of her
'wn accord, proposed to form
. strict and absolute system of
prohibition of her laborers, under
heavy penalties, from coming to the
United States, likewise to prohibit the
eturn to the United States of Chinese
aborers who had at any time been back
o China In order Tin the words of the
communication that Chinese laborers !.
nay be gradually reduced IN number.
mi the causes OF danger averted and /,
ives preserved. This view of the chi |
ese government,sso completely in hsr.
aony with that of the United States
overnment, was, by my direction, :.
peedlly formulated IN treaty draft L
e:ween the two nations, embodying S
10 pIOpOSteAOuS pT6S6ut6U by the Cll- +
csc foreign office. The deliberations.
requent oral discussions and CORE /
pondence on general questions that r
ave ensued have been fully communi- q
ated by me to the Senate at the present a
sssion, and, as contained in the Sena.e c
xecutive documents, parts l and II, S
I'd in Senate Executive document, No n
r, may be properly referred to as con- o
Iining complete history CT the trans g
,tion. r
II is thus easy to learn how ne Joint c
esires and unequivocal mutua! under n
anoiDg of the two governments b
ought into araiculated form in d
eaty, which after g mutual exhibition 0
the pieniary powers from the re Ii
'ective governments was signed and b
included by the plenipotentiaries of
e United States and China at this ri
pital March 12sh last, being submitted f,
r the advice and consent of the Sem i.
e. its confirmation on the 7th day of Il
ay last, accompanied by legislative il
n-ndments which that body en- c
afted upon it on the 12sh day of the e
me month. The Chinese minister, )
40 was plenipotentiary of his govern i