St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
CELESTIALS CINCHED,
President Cleveland Attaches
His Signature to the Chi
neSe Exclusion Bill.
What He Thinks of Mongols in
General and Their Meth
ods.
Those Who Have Suffered
Damage Through Violence
Should Be Indemnified.
Therefore, He Recommends
an Appropriation to Even
Things With John.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The president
sent the following message to congress
to-day:
l have this day approved House Bill No.
1886, supplementary to an act entitled AN
Act to Execute Certain Treaty Supulations
Relating to Chinese" approved the 9th day
of May, 1882.
recommendations may properly accompany
my approval of this bill. Its object is to more
effectually accomplish by legislation the ex-
clusion from this country OF Chinese labor
ers. The experiment of blending the social
habits and mutual race idiosyncracies of the
Chinese laboring classes with those OF the
great body of the people of the United States
has been proved by the experience 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 abandon
ment has grown in force until those having
i'll charge the government of the respective
countries have resolved TO modify and suff-
ciently abrogate all those features OF prior
conventional arrangements which permitted
the coming of Chinese laDorers to the United
States, In modification of prior conyen-
tiOns the treaty of Nov. II, 1880, was con-
cluded, which 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 United
STATES, but not absolutely prohibit 1t; and
under this article an act OF congress, ap-
proved on May 6. 1882 (see vol. % p. 50
stats. at large), and amended July 8, 1884
(see vol. %, p. lis stats. atlarge) suspended
for ten years the coming of Chinese laborers
TO the United States, and regulated the going
and coming of such Chinese laborers as were
at that time in the United States. 1t was,
however, soon made evident that the mer-
cenary
GREED OF THE PARTIES
who were trading in the labor of this class OF
the Chinese population, was proving too
strong for the lust execution of the law. and
that the virtual defeat of the object and in
tent of both the law ana treaty was being
fraudulently accomplished by false pre-
tense and perjury, contrary to the expressed
will of both governments. TO such an ex-
tent has the successful violation of the
treaty and the laws enacted for its execution
progressed, that the courts in the Pacific
states have been for some time past over
whelmed by the examination of cases of
Chinese laborers who are charged with haV-
ing entered our ports under fraudulent GER
tificates of return, or seek to establish by per-
jury the claim of prior residence Such
demonstration of the imperative and inetfi-
cient conditions of the treaty and law has
produced deep-seated and increasing discOn-
tent among the people of the United
states, and especially with those
resident of the Pacific coast This
has induced me to omit no effort to find an
effectual remedy for the evils complained of,
tor the absolute exclusion of Chinese labor
ers 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 consular officers of the Chinese govern
ment and the representations made from
time to time by our minister in China, under
the instructions of the department of state,
the actual condition of public sentiment and
the status of affairs in the United States has
known pOVprnmRnt
China. The necessity for remedy has been
fully appreciated by that government. aud
in August 1856, our minister at Pekin re-
ceived from the Chinese foreign office com
munication announcing that China, of her
own accord. proposed TO establish system
of
STRICT AND ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION
of her laborers, under heavy penalties, from
coming to the United States, and likewise to
prohibit the return to the United States. Of
gone back to China, sin order" Gn the
words of the communication that the Chi
nese laborers may be gradually reduced in
number and causes of danger averted and
government, so completely in harmony with
that of the United States, was by my direc-
ton speedily formulated in treaty draft be-
tween the two nations, embodying the prop
ositions so presented by the Chinese foreign
office The deliberations, frequent oral dis
cussions and correspondence on the general
questions that ensued have been fully COM
municated by me to the senate at the present
session, ana as contained In senate eXecu-
tive document o, parts and 2, and
in senate executive document No. 272,
may be properly referred to as containing
complete history of the transaction. 1t is
thus easy to learn how the joint desires and
uneQuivocal mutual understanding Of the
two governments were brought into articu-
lated form in the treaty, which, after
mutual exhibition of plenary powers from
the respective governments was signed and
concluded by the pienipotentiaries of the
United States ana China, at this capitol,
March IL last. Being submitted for the ad-
vice and consent of the senate, its confirma-
ton, on the 9TH day of May last was accom-
panied by two amendments which that body
engrafted upon it. Upon the 18th 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 secretary of state,
gave his
APPROVAL OF THESE AMENDMENTS.
"As they did not alter the terms of the
treaty." and the amendments were at once
tclegraphed TO China, whittier the original
treaty had previously been sent Immediately
after its signature on March II. On the 18th
day of last month l approved senate bill No.
g. 3O4, ITO prohibit the coming of Chinese
laborers to the United States. This bill was
intended TO supplement the treaty, and was
approved in the confident anticipation of an
early exchange of ratification of the treaty
and its amendments and the proclamation
OF the same, upon which vote the legislation
so approved was by its terms to take effect
No information of any definite action upon
the treaty by the Chinese government 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 government to
exchange ratitications of the treaty un-
less further discussion should be had with
a view to shorten the period stipulated in the
treaty for the exclusion of Chinese laborers
and to change the conditions agreed on
which should entitle any Chinese laborer
who might go back to China to return again
to the United States. By note from the
charge d'affaires ad interim Of China to the
secretary of state received on the evening of
the 25th ult "a copy Of which is herewith
transmitted, together with the reply thereto),
q third amendment is proposed whereby the
certificate, under which any departing
Chinese laborer alleging the possession of
property in the United States would be en-
abled to return to this country, should be
granted by the Chinese consul instead of the
United States collector, as had been provided
in the treaty. The obvious and necessary
hcally to place the
EXECUTION OF THE TREATY
beyond the control of the United States. Ar
ticles Of the treaty proposed to be so mate
rally altered, had, in the course of the nego-
tiations been settled in acquiescence with
the request Of the Chinese plenipotentiary
and to his expressed satisfaction. In 1886,
as appears in the documents heretofore re-
ferred to, the Chinese foreign Office had for
mally proposed to our minister strict exclu-
sion of Chinese laborers from the United
States without limitation. and had otherwise
and more definitely stated that no term
whatever for exclusion was necessary for
the reason that China would of itself take
steps to prevent its laborers from coming to
the United States. In the course of the ne