, 1888-10-02
CHINESE MUST GO.
The President Approves Of the
Exclusion Bill
His Message to Congress on
the Subject.
The Payment of indemnity
recommended
To Chinese Who Have Suffered
Loss Through Violence.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The president
sent the following message to congress to-
day:
[ have this day approved the house bill
supplementary to an act entitled IAN act
to execute certain treaty stipulations re-
lating to Chinese" approved the 9Th day
of May, 1882. 1t seems to me that some
suggestions and recommendations may
properly accompany my approval of this
bill. Its object is to more effectually ac-
complish by legislation the exclusion from
this country of Chinese laborers. The
experiment Of blending social habits and
mutual race idosyncracies of the Chinese
laboring class as with those of the body of
the people of the United States has been
proved by experience of twenty years and
ever since the B%urllngame treaty of 1868
to be in every sense unwise 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 arrange
ments which permitted the coming of
Chinese laborers to the United States. In
modification of prior conventions the treaty
of Nov. II, 1880, was concluded whereby
IN the first article thereof it was agreed
that the United States should at will reg
ulate the limit or suspend the coming of
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not absolutely prohibit, and under this
article an act of congress, approved May
6, 1882. and amended July 5, 1884, sus.
pended for ten years the coming of Chi
nese laborers to the United States and
regulated the going and coming of such
Chinese laboreIs as were at that time
IN THE UNITED SITES.
1t was, however, soon made evident
that the mercenary greed of parties who
were trading in labor Of this class of
Chinese population was proving too strong
for the just execution of the law and that
virtual defeat of the object and intent of
both the law and the treaty was being
fraudulently accomplished by false pre-
fences and perjury, contrary to the ex-
pressed will of both governments. To
such an extent has the successful violation
"a nv llOaJ ohu lhC laws CudClCu U u
execution progressed that the courts have
been for some time past overwhelmed by
the examination of cases of Chinese labor
ers who were charged with having entered
our ports under fraudulent certificates of
return or seek to establish by perjury a
claim of prior residence. Such demon
stratIon of the inefficient condition of the
treaty and the law has produced deep
seated and increasing discomfort among
the people of the United States and es-
peclally with those resident upon the Pa
cific coast. This has induced me to omit
no effort to find an effectual remedy for
the evil complained of and to answer the
popular demand for the
ABSOLUTE EXCLUSION
of Chinese laborers having objects and
purposes unlike our own and wholly dis
connected with American citizenship.
Aided by the presence in this country of
able and intelligent diplomatic and consul
larry 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 condition, public senti-
ment and status of affairs in the United
States have been fully known to the gov
eminent of China and the necessity tor a
remedy has been fully appreciated by that
government, and in August, 1886, our
minister at Pekin received from the Chi
nese foreign officer "a communication an
nouncing that China of her own accord
proposed to establish asystem of strict and
ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION
of her laborers under heavy penalties
from coming to the United States. Like
wise to prohibit the return to the United
States of Chinese laborers who had at
any time been back to China, or in order
lin the words of the communication that
Chinese laborers may be gradually reduced
in numbers and the causes of danger
averted and lives preserved" This view
of the Chinese government, completely in
harmony with that of the United States.
was by my direction speedily formulated
into a treaty draft between the two Da
lions e%mbodying these propositions repre-
scented by the Chinese foreign Office. Dc.
alterations, frequent oral discussions, and
correspondence on general questions that
ensued have been fully communicated by
me to the senate at the present session,
and as contained in the senate executive
documents, parts | and =. aud In the
senate executive document No. 272,
they may be properly referred to as con
tanning a complete history Of the transac-
ton. 1t is thus easy to learn how the
Joint desires and unequivocal mutual I'M
Outstanding of the two governments we're
brought into an a~rticulated form in the
treaty. which after the mutual exhibition
OF the plenary powers from the respec
tive governments was