The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-10-13
CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL.
President Cleveland Gives His
Reasons for Signing It.
A Message to Congress Containing Recon-
mendations ms to Best Methods OF
Preventing Mongolians from
Entering this Country.


| THE MESSAGE.
WAsHryeroN, Oct. 2.--The President sent
the following message 10 Congress yester.
day,
have this dny approved House bill No. 1885
supplementary TO an act entitled An act to @ exc
nese," approved Mny Q, 1882. 1t seems to mo
| that some suggestions and recommendations
Sbscs Is To bs
legislation the exclusion from this country OF
Chinese laborers.
The experiment Of blending tho social habits
| and mutual race idiosyncracies Of tho Chinese
laboring Glasses with those Of the great body Of
the people of the United States has beon proved
| by the experience OF twenty years, and ever
| since the Burlingame treaty OF 1903, to be in
every sense unwise, impolitic and injurious to
nations WITH tue lapse o. time e me-
| until those having In charge the government OF
| the respective countries have resolved to modi.
fy and sufficiently abrogate all those features OF
| prior conventional arrangements wliich per-
mittod the coming OF Chinese laborers to the
| United States.
| OF November IL, 1880, was concluded, whereby.
| in the first article thereof, II was agreed that
the United States should at will regulate. limit.
| or suspend the coming of Chinese laborcrs to
| the United States, but not absolutely prohibit
| 1t, and under this article an act Of Congress-
approved May 8, 1882, and amended July 3. 1884.
| suspended for ten years tho coming OF Chinese
| iaborers to the United States and regulated tho
| going and coming of such Chinese lnborers as
| u
| 1t wns, however, soon made evident that tho
mercenary greed OF the parties who were trad
| Ing 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 de-
| feat OF the object and intent OF both law and
| treaty was being fraudulcntly accomplished by
false pretense and perjury, contrary to the ex-
| pressed will of both governments.
To such an extent has the successful violation
OF the treaty andthe laws enacted for IT'S exc
cution progressed, that the courts Of the Pa
citc States have been for some time past over
whclmed by the examination. OF cases of Chi
nese laborers who arc charged with having en-.
return or seek to establish by perjury the claim
Of prior residence. Such demonstration of the
imperative and inefficient condition Of the
treaty and law has produced deep seated and
increasing discomfort among the people of the
United States and especially with those resi-.
dent on the Pacific coast. This has induced me
to omit no effort to find an effectual remedy for
the evils complained Of, and to answer the earn
est popular demand for the absolute exclusion
Of Chinese laborers having objects and pur-
poses unlike our own and wholly disconnected
with American citizenship.
ana f n o see
Of the Chinese government. and tho represen-
tations made from time to time by our Minister
in China. under the instructions OF the Depart
ment Of State, the actual condition OF public
sentiment and the status OF affairs in the United
States has been fully known to the governments
fully appreciated by that government, and in
August, 1885. our Minister at Picking received
from the Chinese Foreign Office q communica-
tion announcing that China, of her own accord,
proposed to establish q system Of strict and alb
solute prohibition of her laborers, under heavy
pa swse to eopa pros G the aa ls,rn e states ties
United States OF any Chinese laborer who had
at any time gone back to China, "in order that
in number and causes Of danger nverted and
lives preserved"
This view OF the Chinese government, SO COM
pletely in harmony with that OF the United
States. direction Sneedily
in treaty drafted between the two nations. en-
bodying the propositions SO presented by the |
The deliberations and correspondence on the |
general questions that ensued have been fully
communicated by me to the Senate OF the pres
containing complete history of the transaction. |
II Ia thus easy to learn how the joint desires |
and unequivocal mutual understanding Of the
form and treaty. which. after mutual exhibit |
ton of plenary powers from the respective gov. |
nipotentiarics OF the United States ana China /
ut this Capitol on March ~ last. Being submit |
ted for the advice and consent Of the Senate its
confirmation on the Tth day OF May last was &C. |
companied by two amendments which thnt
body engrafted upon IT..
On the twelfth 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 a note to the Secre-
ments, " as they did not alter the terms Of tho
trenty." and the amendments were ut once tele. |
graphed to China, whittier the original trenty |
had previously been sent Immediately after its |
signature on March II.
On the lsth day Of last month; approved
Senate bill No. SsH, ITO prohibit the coming Of
bill was intended to supplement the treaty and /
was approved in tho confident anticipation Of /
an early exchange OF ratihcations of the treaty |
and its amendments and the proclamation OF 1
the same, upon which event the legislation so /
approved was by its terms to take effect.
No information of any definite action upon the |
nUnQ n III afv voA
until a1st ultimo. the day the bill which have |
Just approved was presented to me, when o tele. |
tary Of State announced the refusal of the Chi. |
nese government to exchange publications. Of |
the treaty, unless further discussion should be |
had with view to shorten the period stipulated |
in the treaty for the exclusion OF Chinese labor
ers, and to change the conditions agreed on |
which should entitle my Chinese laborer who |
States.
Bya note from the charge danutrs I'D in
terim OF China to the Secretary Of State. re-
amendment Is proposed, whereby the certifi-
cate. under which any departing Chinese laborer
angad ,aeslp ans OF in the
this country, should be granted by the Chinese
consul instead of the United States collector
GUS and necessary effect of this last proposition
would be practically to place the execution Of
the treaty beyond the control OF the United
States
The President recommends that Congress.
by Joint resolution, or in some other man
ner, provide that such Chinese laborers as
have actually embarked on their return to
this country before the passage of this bill
may be permitted to land. He also recon.
mends the appropriation Of the amount
named in the rejected treaty to indemnify
certain Chinese subjects for damages suf-
fered through violence in tho remote and
unsettled portions Of our
country