Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-10-05


Pacific slope.
WASHINGTON, Oct. IA message from
the president announcing his approval Of
the Chinese exclusion bill, accom- panied
b! con- mmunlcatIon submitting certain
recommendations on the subject, was
read ID the senate to-day and referred to
the Committee On ssate affairs and ordered
printed.
the presidents message was as fol-
lows:
10 the congress- have this day ap-
proved hoGss bill Nc. II 336, supplemen-
tary to an act entitled, An act to execute
certain treaty stipuatious relating to
Ch1nese,' approved the sixth day of May,
1882.
1T seems to Enc that some suggestions
and recommendations may properly ac-
company my approval of this bull. Its
object is to accomplish more effectually
by legislation the exclusion from this
country of Chinese laborers.
The experiment. OF blending the social
habits and mutual race idiosyncrasies
of the United States has been proved by
the experience of twenty years, and ever
since ths BnrlIngame treaty of 1868 to be
In every senss Unwise, impolitic, and in
jurious to both nations. With the lapse
of time the necessity for its abandon
ment has grown in force, until those hav-
ing In charge the government of the
respective countries have resolved to
modify and sufficiently abrogste all those
features of prior conventional arrange
ments which permitted the coming of
Chinese laborers to the United States
"Jn modification of prior conventions
the treaty of Nov. II, 1880, was ooncIud-
ed whereby, in the first article thereof, it
was agreed that the United States should
at will regulate, limit OR suspend the
coming of Chinese laborers to the Uni
ted States, but not absolutely prohibit;
and under this article en- act of congress
approved on May 6, 1882, (Sse Vol. 22, y.
So, stats at large,) and amended July 8,
1884, (Vol. %, P. lis, stats ct large) sus-
pended for ten years the coming of
Chinese laborers to the United States
aud regulated the going aud coming OK
such Chinese labOrers as we're at that time
in the United States. II was, however,
soon made evident that the uercenary
greed of the parties WHO were trading
In the labor of this class
of the Chinese population was proving
too strong for the just execution of the
law, and that the virtual defeat of the
object and intent of both Law aud treaty
was being fraudulently accomplished By
false pretenss and perjury, contrary 80
the expressed will OF both governments.
"To such an extent has the success sful
violation Of the treaty and the laws en-
acted for itS execution progressed. that
the courts in the Pacific states have been
for some time past overwhelmed by the
examination of cases OF Chinese iaborers
who are charged with having e.Ntered our
ports under fraudulsnt certificates of re-
turn or seek to establish by perjury the
claim of prior residence.
'Such demonstration of the inopers-
tive and inefficient condition of the
treaty and Law mas pIodGced deep-seated
and increasing discomfort among the
people of the United States ard especially
with these resident on the Pacific coast.
This has induced me- to omit no effort to
find an effectual remedy for the evil.
com planned of, and to answer the earnest
popular demand for the absolute ezclu-
sion of Chinese laoorsrs having objects
and purposes unlike our OWL, and discon-
nected with American citizenship.
aided by the presence in this country
of able and Intelligent diplomatic and
consular officers of the Chinese govern
ment, and the representations made from
time to time by our minister in China
under the ins tructions of the department.
OF state, the actual condition of public
sentiment and the stains of affairs in the
United States has been frlly made known
to ths government of China.
"The necessity for remedy has been
fully appreciated by that government,
and in August, 1886, our minister at
Peking received from the Chinese for
eign office a communication announcing
that China, of her own accord, proposed
to establish system of strict and abso-
lutte prohibition Of her laborers, under
heavy penalties, from coming to the Uni
ted States and likewise to prohibit the
return of any Chinese lsborer who
had at any time gone back to China in
ORDER lin the words of the communica-
tion) that the Chinese laborers may
gradually be reduced in number and
causes of danger averted and lives pre-
s9rved.'
This view of the Chinese government,
so completely in harmony with that of the
United States, was by my direction speed
lily formulated in treaty draft between
the two nations, embodying the PROPOSE
tions so presented by the Chinese foreign
Office.
"The deliberations, frequent oral dis
cussions and correspondence on the gen
eral questions that epsued have been
fully communicated by me to the senate
at the present session, and as contained
in senate executive document o, parts l
and 2, and in senate executive document
No. 272, may be properly referred to as
containing a complete history of the
transaction.
''It is thus easy to learn how the joint
desires and upequivocal mutual under
standing of the two governments we're
brought into srticulated form in tn.
treaty, which, sitter a mutual exhibition
OF plenary powers from the respective
governments, was signed and concluded
by the pleni nipotentisries of the United
States and China at this capital on March
IL last.
"Being submitted for the advice aud
the consent of the senate its conforms-
tion on the 7th day OF May last, was ac-
companied by two amendments, which
that body engrafted upon it.
"On the 18th day of the same month.
the Chinese minister WHO was the pleni-
potentiary of his government IN tho
negotiation and the conclusion of the
treaty, IL q note to the secretary of state
gave his approval to these statements,
"ss they did not alter the terms of the
treaty" and the amendmsnt. we're at
once telegrephei TO China, .hither the
original treaty had previously been sent
Immeiistely after the signature on
March u.
Goa tse 13sh day of lest month I sp-
proved senate bill number 1894, 80
prohibit the coming of Chinese iaborers
10 the United States
This bill was intended 10 supplement-
the treaty and was approved in the coz
fdsut antici patton of an early exchange
of rati6catious of the treaty and its
amendments and the proclamation OF the
same upon which event the legislation so
approved vas by iis terms 30 take effect
NO information of any definite action
upon the treaty by the Chinese govern
ment va. received until the 2lst 1lt., the
day the bill which have Just approved,
was presented 10 me, when q telegram
from our minister at Pekin to the secre-
tary of state announced the refusal of
the Chinese government to exchange rsti-
fcasions of the treaty. until further
discussion should be had with
a view to shorten the period stipulated in
the treaty fer the exclusion of Chinese
Iaborer-, SID to change the conditions