Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-02
ANOTHERMESSAGE
President Cleveland Reviews Negotiations with China.
THE TREATY AND THE BILL.
China Was Shown Many Fa-
 vors in the Stipulations.
THE EXCLUSION BILL SIGNED.

China Is Arraigned for selfshness-she Virtually Originated All of Article of the Treaty. and Many of Her Requests Were Granted and Incorporated-Then - She Proposed Alterations Which Would Have Placed the Execution of the Treaty Beyond Control of This Govern men;-The President Recommends Full Indemnity for Losses of Chinese Subjects. WASHINGTON, Oct 2-President Cleveland signed the Chinese exclusion bill and trans mitted it to congress, accompanied by the following message:
 To the Congress:
 I have this day approved house bill Mo- III ,3S6, supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to execute certain treaty stipula- lions relating to Chinese" approved the 9th day of May, 1882. It seems to me that some suggestions and recommendations may prop erly accompany my approval of this bill.
 Its object is to more efectually 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 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 tho 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. r, 1SSS0, 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, 22, p. 5S, statutes at large), and amended July 5, 1884 (vol. 23, p. 115 statutes at large), suspended for ten years the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, and regulated the going and coming of such Chi nese laborers as were at that time 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 of both law and treaty was being fraudulently accomplished byvfalse pretense and perjury, contrary to the Expressed will of both govern ments.
 To such an extent has the successful viola ton 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 i'll 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 aad 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 As- gust, 1886, our minister at Pekin received from the Chinese foreign office a communica tion announcing that China, of her own Mc- cord, proposed to establish a 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" 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, SC completely in harmony with that of the United States, was by my direction speedily formulated ill a treaty draft between the two nations, embodying the propositions so pre- sented by the Chinese foreign office.
 Nhn Ia1iI 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 1 and ?, and in senats executive document No. 272, may be properly referred to as containing a complete history of the transaction. It is thus easy to lear-s how the joint desires and unequivocal mutun understanding of the two governments were brought into articulated form in the treaty which, after mutual exhibition of plenar5 powers from the respective governments, wal signed and concluded by the plenipotentiarie of the United States and China at this capita on March 12 last. Being submitted for tn, advice and consent of the senate its confirm Rtion on the 7th day of May last was ac oompanied by two amendments which tha, body engrafted upon it.
 On the 18th day of the same month th, Chinese minister who was the plenipotentiarJ of his government in the negotiation and tn conclusion of the treaty, in a note to tn secretary of state gave his approval to thes amendments, "as they did not alter the term of the treaty." and the amendments were a once telegraphed to China, whither tn original treaty had previously been sent i'm mediately after its signature on March 12
 On the 18th day of last month I approve. senate bill No. 3,304, to prohibit the comin, of Chinese laborers to the United States This bill was intended to supplement tn treaty, and was approved in the confident an ticipation of an early exchange of ratiica tions of the treaty and its amendments an, the proclamation of the same upon whic event the legislation so approved was by it terms to take effect.
 No information of any definite action upol the treaty by the Chinese government wa received until the Fist ultino-the day tn bill which have just approved was presente to me-when telegram from our ministe at Pekin to the secretary of state announce the refusal of the Chinese government 10 ez change notifications of the treaty, unlea