The Springdale news., 1888-10-05


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 ment Of blending the
 President CfeottdHd cial habits and mutual race tdIosvnerases Of the Chinese laboring classes with those of the great body of the peo- pie Of the United States has been proved by the experience Of twenty years and ever since the Burlingame treaty Of 1888, to be in every sense unwise, impolitie and injurious to both nations. With the lapse of time the necessity of it's abandonment has grown in force, until those having in charge the government Of the respective countr- es have resolved to modify and sufficiently abrogate all those features of prior conventional arrangements which permit ted the coming of Chinese laborers 10 the United States.
 In modification of prior conventions the treaty Of November f7, 1Ss1, was concluded, whereby. in the first article thereof, 1t 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 il; and under this article an act of Congress, approved on May 6, iS82 tsee Vol. e2, ?. 5S, Statutes at Large), and amended July 51sS4 6Vel. B 1l5, Statutes at Large1, suspended for ten years the coming Of Chinese laborers to the United States, and regulated the going and coming of such Chinese laborers were at that tune in the United States. It was, however. soon made evident that the mercenary 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 O both law and treaty was being fraudulently accomplished by false pre- tense and perjury contrary to the expressed will of both governments To such an extent has the successful violation of the treaty and laws enacted for it's execution progressed that the courts in the Pacific States have been for some time past overwhelmed by the exam!ha- ton Of cases Of Chinese laborers wEo are charged with having entered our ports under fraudulent certificates of return or seek to established by perjury the claim of prior residence. Such demonstration of the imperative and inefhc.nt condition of the treaty and law has produced deep-seated and increasing discontent among the people oi the United States, and especially with those resident on the Pacific coast. Fms has induced me to omit no effort To find effectual remedy for the evils complained of, and to answer the earnest popular demand for the abso- Iute exclusion of Chinese iaborers nav ing 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 Government, and the representations made from time ts time by our Minister in China, under the in- structions of the Department of State. the actual condition ot public sentiment and status Of affairs 1n the United States has been fully made known to the Government Of China
 The necessity for remedy has been fully ap precated by that government, and iH August. ISS6, our Minister at Pelan received from the Chinese Foreign Office q communication an nouncing that China, CT her own accord, pro- posed 10 establish system of strict and abSo- Iute prohibition of her laborers, under heavy penalties, from coming to the United States, and likewise fo prohih. the return to the JTpita1 QF f'hfTp-a lahDrar who nnN at any tme gone back to China, in order Cin the words of the com mmunicatonl that the Chinese Iaborers may gradually be reduced in number and causes of danger averted and lives preserved This view of the Chinese Govern meut. so completely in harmony with that of the United States, Was b my direction speedi- E formulated in treaty draft between the two nations, emDodY.ag the proposition so presented by the Chinese Foreign 0fice. The deliberations, frequent oral discussion and correspondence on the general question that =ensued have been fully communicated by me 10 the Senate at the present session. and as contained in State executive document C. parts and D and Senate executive document No 272, may be properly referred tO as contain ing complete history of the transaction. It IS thus easy to learn how the joint desires and uGequiyoeal mutual unders tanding or the two governments were brought into arteulated form n the treaty, which, after mutual
 
 spectiye governments, was signed and concluded by the plenipotentlaries Of the United States and China at this capital on March l3 last. Being submitted for the advice and consent Of the Senate, its con firmation on the 7th day of May last was ae- companed by two amendments which that body cngraftcd upon 1t. On the 18th day Of the same month the Chinese Minister who was the pleafpotentiary of his government in the negotiation and the c0nciQslon of the treaty, in q note to the Secretary of State gave his app proval of these amendments. "as they did not alter the terms or the treaty and the amend mcuts were at once telegraphed China, whither the original treaty had previously been sent immediately after it's signature on March l2
 On the 18th day of last month ! approved Senate bill No 33al. "to 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 notifications of the treaty and its amendments, and the proelama ton of the same, upon which event the leglsla- ton 50 approved was, by its terms. to take ef- feet No information of any definite action upon the treaty by the Chinese Government was recelve.' uni the 21st ult.-the day the bill which have just approved was presented to me-wheu q telegram from our Minister n Pekin to the Secretary Of State. announced the refusal of the Chinese Government To exchange ratldcatons of the treaty unless further discus sion should be had with view to shorten the period stipulated In the treaty for the eXclu. sion of Chinese laborcfs, and to change the conditions agreed on or which should enttle any Chinese laborer who might go back tu China t0 return again to the United States,