Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-02
And the AlmOnd-Eyed Celestial
Can Not Come i'm,
GROVER SIGNS THE SCOTT BILL
And Accompanies His Approval With a
Message
AND HISTORY OF THE TREATY.
It Originated With the Chinese Government
Which Afterwards Rejects It's Own
Tsrms---0nly One Course Left
to SAmsricans---San Fam
cisco RejOices.

WASHINGTON, October 1.-The Presi-
dent sent the following message to Con-
grsss to-dsy:
81 have this day approved House bill
No. II, 1856, supplementary, TO an act enti-
tied: AN act to exeeuts csrtsiu treaty
ST ipulations relating to the Chinese sp-
proved the 9th day Of May, 1882,
1T seems to me that some suggestions
and recommendations may prcparly &C.
company my sppccval of this bill. Its
object is to more effectuslly accomplish by
LEGISLATION the exclusion from this country
OF Chinese laborers.
''The experiment of blending the social
habits and mutual race idiosyncracies of
the Chinese lsboring 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 Burl-
iugame treaty of 1868, to be in every sense
unwise, impolitic and Injurious to both
nations. With tire lapse of time the ne-
cessity for its abandonment has grSwD
in force, until those having in charge the
vernment OF the resps:tivs coun-
tres have resolved TO modify and
CT ficieatly abrogats all those testarss of
prior conventional arrangements which
permitted the coming of Chinese labor t.
the Unit d States. In the modification Of
prior conventions the treaty Of November
Il, 1880, was concluded, whereby, In the
tiCst article thereof, it WAS agreed that the
Uaited States should, at will, regulate,
limi', or suspend the coming OF Chinese
labOrers to the United States, but not Sb
so uiely prohibiting it; ana under this
article an act of Congress, approved on
Msy 6tb, 1882, (Sse Volume %, 655, States
at Lsrge) suspended for ten years tie COM
ipy of Chinese laborsrs to the United
States, and regulated the going and CON-
iue of such Cnlnese labcrers as were at
til At time IN the United States. It was,
however, soon made evident thai the mer-
ceuary greed of tie parties who were
TRADING IN THE LABOR
OF this class of the Chinese population
was proving too strong for the Just execu-
ton of the law, and that the virtual de-
fest of the object and intent of both law
ard treaty was being fraudulentlY accom-
pl,shed by false pretense and perjury, colt
traIy to the expressed will of both govern
msnIs.
To such an extent has the successful
violation of the treaty and the laws en-
acted for the execution progressed, that
the courts in the Pacific States have been
for sometime past over Whelmed by the ex-
animation of the cases of Chinese lsborers,
VINO are charged with having ertsr our
ports under fraudulent certificates OF re-
turn, or seek to establish by perjury the
claim OF prior residence. Such dem
oustrstiou of the imperative aud inetfi.
cient condition of the treaty and
law has produced deepsested and Incress-
ing discomfort among the people OF the
Uaited States, and especially with those
resident upon the Pacific coast. This has
induced me to omit no effort TO lind an
effec;uaI remedy for the evils compliance
OF, and 70 answer the earnest popular de-
mand for the absolute exclusion OF Chinese
Iaborers, having objects and purposes un-
| like our Own, and wholly disconnected
with American citizenship. Aided by the
presence in this country of able and intel
Iiyent diplomatic and Consular officers Of
the Chinese government, and the represen-
tstions made from time to time by our
Niaister in China and under instructions
of the Department of State, the actual
condition of public sentiment and the
status of affairs in the United States has
been fully known. The necessity for
remedy has been fully appreciated by
gust, 1886, cur Minister at Pekin Ie'
G. ived from the Chinese foreign OIL
fec q communication announcing that
China of her own accord proposed
To establish system OF strict AND
absolute prohibition Of her lsborers,
under heavy penalties from coming TO the
United States, and likewise TO prohibit the
lye.urn to the United States of any Chinese
laborer who had at any time goae back to
china. ''in ORDER Tin the words OF the
Communication 'tnst the Chinese labor
srs may gradually he reduced an number
and causes of danger averted and lives
preserved" This view of the Chinese
government, so completely in harmony
with that of the Uoited States, was by my
direction speedily formulated in treaty
draft between the mai Dns embody lng the
nropositious so presented by the Chinese
foreign Office. The deliberations, freqaes'
oral discussions and correspondence on the
general questions that ensred have been
fully communicated by me to the Senate
at the present session and, as Contained IN
Senate Executive document, parts l and
and in Senate Exeeutlve
document nc. 272, may oe
properly referred to as containing com
,ste history of the transaction. 1t Il
thus easy 10 learn how tie joint desires
and unsa auiyocal mutual understanding OF
the two governments were brought into
artieulsted form in the treaty, which, after
\ mutual exhibition of plenary powers
from the respective governments was
signed and concluded by the plenipotsn'
tiaries of the United States aud China OF
this capital on March 18th lsst. Being
submitted for the advice and consent Of
the Senate, its confirmation on tbs seventh
dsy of May last was accompanied by two
amendments, which that body engrafted
upon it. On the 18th day OF the
, same month the Chinese Minis
ter who was the plenipotentiary Of
his own government in the negotiation
and the conclusion of tbs treaty, in note
10 the Secretary of State gave his approval
: Of these amendmertI, ''as they did moi
, alter the terms of tbs treaty" and the
amendments were at once telegrsphed 70
Chins, whittier tie original treaty had
l previously bean sent Immediately after its
Q signature on March 18th.
, On the 18th day Of last month ap
proved Senate bill No. 1864, ito prohibit
the coniag Of Chinese la6orefs to the Uni
] ted States" This bill was inten6oi Il
supplement the treaty, and was approved
in the confident anticipation Of an early
4 exchange of rstihcations of the tresty and
lits amepdmente. and the proclamation O