Mower County transcript., 1888-10-10
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Americas Doors Closed to the
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Americas Doors Closed to the
Chinese. b E.
THE EXCLUSION BILL BECOMES a Law. 1
Full Text Of the Message OF President
Cleveland Approving the Measure-He
Favors tho Admission of China. s.
men I'm Route. :
4 LAW OF THE LAND
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. The President
sent the following message to Congress
yesterday:
have this day approved House bill No.
1Lsso supplementary to an act entitled AN
act TO execute certain treaty stipula-
tions relating to Chinese approved the
sixth day Of May, 1882 It seems to
me that some suggestions and recommends.
tions may properly accompany my approval Of
this bill Its object is to more etfectualy ac-
complish by legislation the exclusion from this
country OF Chinese laborers. The experiment
OF blending the social habits and
mutual race idiosyncrasies of the Chinese
laboring classes with those Of the great body
Of the labor,ng people Of the United States
has been proved by the experience
OF twenty years, and ever since the
Burlingame treaty OF 1853, to be IN
every sense unwise, impolittc 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 sufficient
ly abrogate all those features of prior
conventional arrangements which per.
mitted the coming of Chinese laborers to the
limited States n modification ~
ventons the treaty OF November II,
1880. was concluded, in which, in the
first article thereof, 1t was agreed that
the United States should at will regu-
late, limit or suspend the coming of
Chinese laborers to the United States, but not
absolutely prohibit it, and under this article
IN act OF Congress, approved on May 6, 1882,
and amended July s. 1854, suspended for ten
years the coming of Chinese laborers to
the United States and regulated the
going and coming of such Chinese labor
ers rs were ut that time in the United States.
1t was, however, soon made evident that the
m ercenary greed OF the parties who were trad
Ing In the labor Of this class OF the Chinese
population were proving too strong for the just
execution OF the law, and that the virtual de.
feat OF the object and intent of both
law and treaty was being frauduientlv accom-
plIshed by false pretense and perjury, contrary
to the expressed will OF both Governments. To
tho treaty and the laws enacted for its ex-
ecution progressed, that tho courts in the
Pacific States have been for some time past
overwhelmed by the examination OF cases of
Chinese labOrers who are charged with having
entered our ports under fraudulent certificates
OF return or seek to establish by perjury the
claim of prior residence
"Such demonstration OF the inoperative and
inefficlent condition of the treaty and law has
produced deep-seated and increasing discomfort
among the people OF the United States and
especially with those resident on the Pacific
coast. This has induced me to omit no
effort to find an effectual remedy
earnest popular demand for the absolute ex-
clusion OF Chinese laborers, having objects
and purposes unlike our own and wholly
disconnected with American citizenship.
Aided by the presence in this country of
able and intelligent diplomatic and con.
sular officers OF the Chinese Government, and
the representations made from time to me
BY, our Minister in China under the instructions
OF the Department OF State, the actual con-
dition OF public sentiment and the status OF
affairs in the United States has been fully
known to the Government of China.
1.-THE necessity for remedy has been fully
appreciated by the Government, and in Au-
gust, 1885, our Minister at Pclxin received from
Tho ohinese Foreign Once communication an
nouncing that China, OF ner aoonrd pro-
posed to establish system of strict and abs o
lutte prohibition Of her laborers, under
heavy penalties, from coming to the United
States, and likewise to prohibit the return to
the United States of any Chinese laborer who
had any time gone back to China In ORDER
I'm the words OF the cOmmunication) that the
Chinese laborers may gradually be reduced in
number and causes of danger averted and lives
preserved
"This view OF the Chinese Government, so
NIL horu <ho% TYni% "a
States, was by my direction speedily formu-
lated in treaty draft between the two ma
tons, embodying the propositions so pre-
sented by the Chinese Foreign Once. The de-
liberatons, frequent oral discussions and
correspondence on the general questions
that ensued have been fully communicated by
me to the Senate at the present session, and
as contained in Senate Executive Document,
parts and 2, and in Senate Executive Docu-
ment No. 27s, may be properly referred to as
containing com plete history OF the transac-
ton.
1T is thus easy to learn how the joint desires
and uneQuivOcal mutual understanding OF the
two Governments were brought into articulated
form in the treaty. which, after o mutual exhi-
bition of plenary powers from the respective
governments, was signed and concluded
by the plenipotentiaries OF the United States
and China at this capital on March IL last.
Being submitted for the advice and con-
on the 9TH day of May last was &C.
complished by two amendments which that
body engrafted upon It, On the 1sth day of the
same month the Chinese Minister, who was
the plenipotentiary Of his Government
In the negotiation and the conclusion
Of the treaty, in . note to the Score
tary Of State, gave his approval OF these
amendments, as they did not'alter the terms
OF the treaty, and the amendments were at
once telegraphed to China, whittier the origin
al treaty had previously been sent Immediate
ly after its signature on March ~.
"On the 18th day of last month ap.
proved Sen ate bill No. 304 to prohibit the COM
Ing OF Chinese laborers to the United States.
This bill was intended to supplement- the
treaty, and was approved in the confident an
ticipation OF an early exchange of ratihcations
Of the treaty and its amendments and the
proclamation OF the sapce, upon which event
the legislation so approved was by its terms to
take effect r.
mo Information OF any definite action upon
the treaty by the Chinese Governments was re-
ceived until the 21st ult, the day the bill which
have just approved was presented to me,
when telegram from our Minister at Pekin to
the Secretary Of State announced the refusal OF
the Chinese Governm ent to exchange rattfios-
tiOns of the treaty, unless further discussion
should be had with q view to shorten the
period stipulated In the treaty for the exclu.