Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-10-06
CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL.
President Cleveland Gives His
Reasons for Signing 1t.
"A Message to Congress Containing Recon-
mendations as to Best Methods of
Preventing Mongolians from
Entering this Country.

THE MESSAGE.
WASHINGTON, Oct 2.-The President sent
the following message to Congress yester-
day:
have this day approved House bill No. 1896
supplementary to an act entitled "Anact to exc
cute certain treaty stipulatlOns relating to Chi
nese,' approved May &, 1881! 1t seems to me
that some suggestions and recommendato
may properly accompany my approval Of this
bill. Its obect is to eifeotually accomplish by
legislation the exclusion from this country OF
Chinese lab0rers.
The experiment of blending the social habits
and mutual race idosyncracies OF the Chinese
laboring classes with those of the great body of
the people of the United States has been proved
~ tho e"nn-ionca ~ twenty yGaeF Nnd ever
sinee the bdrlingame treaty OF lhjS, to be In
every sense unwise, impolitic and injurious to
both nations. With the lapse of time the ne
cessity for its Abandonment has grown in force
until those having in charge the government Of
the respective countries have resolved TO mOdi-
y and sufficiently abroEate all those features Of
prior conventional arrangements which per
mtted the coming of Chinese laborers to the
United States
In modification Of prior conventions the treaty
of November II, 1850, was concluded, whereby.
in the first article thereof IL was agreed that
the United States should at Will regulate limit,
or suspend the coming of Chinese laoorers to
the United States, but not absolutely prohibit
| it, and under this article an act of Congress,
approved May q, 1882, and amended July D. 1854
suspended for ten years the coming of Chinese
| laborers to the United States and regulated the
going and coming OF such Chinese laDOrers as
were at the time in the United States
1t was, however, soon made evident that the
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-
tGaut ut hot "a
| treaty was being fraudUleuty accomplished by
| false prctense and perjury, contrary to the eX-
| pressed will Of both governments.
| To such an eXteut has the successful violation
| OF the treaty aud the laws enacted for its exc
| cution progressed that the courts Of the Pa
| cinc States have been for some time past over
| whclmed by the examination Of cases of Chi
nese lHOOrers VINO are ChdrRtu WIN haNlh5 en-
| tered our ports under fraudulent certificates of
! 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 diGrOutpnt among the people Of the
| United states and especially with those resi-
Iott on tbe poriec caast frbis has Induced me
it W., 'fart "a Ami m eraptial rpmr Iy for
| mo ovte cn,nnlained of and TO an yyer the earn
| oef no,,nlar demand for thr absolute exclusion
| of Ghtnese lohorors having objects and pur-
| nosee unlike o,r oUn and wholly disconneCted
| l,g(.,tT' ,n;,c,, tnt'no "", it ban. hin
tH4i I NO nreeence IN this country of oble
| o,1 intaiIi ,on+ 5inlonotir and consular officers
| ~ NO Cl,innqn gnynrnrnpnt and the rcpresen.
tatione maie from time to time bv our Minister
| Va t.',to ~, , +i i,,str,ctinre GF tbe Dnnart.
NJ. II. S c,, fo actI,oI condition of nuhIic
tt ,d mo etn+ne ~ AFFAIRS in the limited
| c,t,na hag 1,1n, friII i,nov,n to thr rovarnment
| ~ Ghino Tho nepegsJtv for remedy has been
5U,S "t 1874 onr Ninistcr ot prl,inr RECEIVED
W. ~ i.t2' 4,so Iimrri5n Onica n Commute,
.iolh W. ',i, ~ 49,, frina mf her own nccord