Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-03
NO Chinese WANTED.
Full Text of President Cleyeland's
Exclusion Bill Message.
REGARDING THE TREATY.
The Chinese Government Itself Proposed
the Strongest of Its stipuiations, and
Then Refused TO Ratify the Con-
vention--Indemnity for Loss.

vention--Indemnity for Loss.
WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-Following is the
full text of President ClevelaIll's message to
congress approving the Chinese exclusion
bill:
have this day approved house bill No
III, 1886, supplementary to an act entitled
"An act to execute certain treaty stipula-
tions relating to Chinese approved the 9th
day of May, 1882 1t seems to me that some
suggestions and recommendations may prop
erly accompany my approval of this bin.
Its object is TO more effectually accomplish
by legislation the exclusion from this country
of Chinese laborers. The experiment of
blending the social habits and mutual race
Rdiosyncrasies 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 abandonment has grown in force until
those having in charge the government of the
respective countries have resolved to modify
and sufficiently abrogate all those features of
prior conventional arrangements which per-
mitted the coming of Chinese laborers to the
United States
In modification of prior conventions the
treaty of Nov. IL, 1880, was concluded,
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 it; and under this ar
ticle an act Of congress, approved on May 6,
1882 (see vol. %, p. 5S, statutes at large), and
amended July $, 1884 (vol. %, p. 115, statutes
at iarge), suspended for ten years the coming
of Chinese laborers to the United States, and
regulated the going and coming Of such Chi
ness laborers as were at that time in the
United States.
1t 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 of
both law and treaty was being fraudulently
accomplished by false pretense and perjury,
contrary to the expressed will of both govern
ments
To such an extent has the successful viola
tion Of the treaty and the laws enacted 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 laborers who are charged
with having entered our ports under fraudu-
lent certificates of return or seek to establish
by perjury the claim of prior residence
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 to time by
our minister in China under the instructions
of the department of state, the actual condi-
tion of public sentiment and the status Of
affairs in the United States has been fully
known to the government of China.
The necessity for remedy has been fully
appreciated by that government, and in Au-
gust, 1886, our minister at Pekin received
from the Chinese foreign office communica-
tion announcing that China, of her own ac-
cord, 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 any Chinese
laborer who had at any time gone back to
China, in order,n in the words of the COM
munication, 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
completely In harmony with that of the
United States, was by my direction speedily
| formulated in treaty draft between the two
nations, embodying the propositions 50 pre-
sented by the Chinese foreign Office.
The deliberations, frequent oral discus
sions, and correspondence on the general
| question that ensued have been fully COM
municated by me to the senate at the present
session and as contained in senate executive
document, Parts l and 2, and in senate
executive document No. 272, may be properly
referred to as containing complete history
Il x~F@R ~~~&z
how the joint desires and unequivocal mutual
| understanding Of the two governments were
| brought into articulated form In the treaty
which, after mutual exhibition 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 10 last. Being submitted for the
| advice and consent Of the senate, its confirm
| alton 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 plenipotentiary
of his government in the negotiation and the
conclusion of the treaty, In O note to the
secretary of state gave his approval to these
amendments, 'sas they did not alter the terms
Of the treaty, and the amendments were at
once autographed to China, whittier the
original treaty had previously been sent i'm
mediately after its signature on March 10.
On the 18th day Of last month / approved
senate bin No. s,304. to prohibit the coming
OF Chinese lab0reTs 90 the United States.
This bill was intended to supplement- the
trssty, and was approved in the confident an.
ticipation Of Al early exchange Of ratifica.
tiOns OF the treaty and its amendments and
the proclamation of the same, upon which
event the legislation % approved was by it
terms to take effect
no information Of any definite action upon
the treaty By the Chinese government was
received until the 21ss uItimo- the 1ay the