The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-08
4 CHINESE EXODUS
A Movement to Return all Cele
tialS TO China.
RETALIATION THE WATCHWORD
The Chinese Minister at Washington Formerly
Protests Against the New Exclusion
Law-Treaty Violations.

ESPECIAL to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch1
PHILADELPHIA, May IA movement has
begun to cause the return of all Chinese in
the United States to China, in consequence
OF the exclusion bill. Secret conferences
are being held in all the larger cities of the
country TO look into the perfection of the
plans for the exodus.
A CONFERENCE OF CHINESE.
A conference of the Chinese of Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland and several other neigh
boring states, has been held in this city,
attended by hundreds of the more infuen-
rial Celestials. Delegates attended from
many cities, but all the doings are kept a
profound secret, and Chinatown is mum
on the matter. These meetings were to
have been held in Baltimore, but the fact
leaked out and was published in the Balti-
more newspapers. Thereupon Gong Hoi,
the Baltimore magnste, who is also grand
master of the Chinese Free Masons, issued
an edict transferring che meeting to PhiIa-
delphia. The chief discussion was upon
the articles published in the Var Kee, the
editor of which detailed the public meet
1ngs which have been held in China, par
ticular attention being called 10 the one
addressed to the emperor himself.
PLAN OF THE CELEsTIALs.
The article concluded as follows: "Our
country has at last awakened to the feet
that IS children and their paternaI and
ancestral gods have been unduly imposed
upon. Why does not our motherland do
likewise to the uubelieving American racs3
But the time is coming when our rights
must be respected. he father has asserted
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children, and when we have all done our
duty properly the edict will go forth pro-
hlolung relations Of any kind between
China ana America.
American capital will be driven from
our native lands, her ships will not be
allowed in our ports, in fact we will erect
another wall IN commercial sense. But
there are provisions which must be sbided
by if we ask our homo government to en-
force these instructions 1t is made I'M
perGt.ye upon every Chinaman to return to
his native heath.
DANGER or DIsREGARDING TIE ORDER.
Transportation viii be provided for him,
end be it well understood by all, in case
this action is taken by our government,
whoever disregards the order TO leave this
country eliminates himself in the eyes of
the Pekin ministry, and Will in case ne
Lreads the fiowery walks later in life DO SO
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your thoughts and actions are well weighed,
have your meetings well attended and con-
Quoted with the utmost secrecy and in due
J time success must come to our cause and
taliation be the watchWOrd Of our ban
ners."
Chna's Protest Against tho Exclusion Law.
WAsHNGToN, May 7.-On inquiry at the
/ Chinese legation today it is ascertained tho
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protest has been made to the state depart
ment by the Chinese minister against the
exclusion bill passed by Congress the 4th
| inst. The minister says he called in person
at tine department on the morning of the
5th ard in the absence of Blaine saw AS
sistan5 Secretary Wharton, and notified
him he would send to the department at
once 4 written protest against the bill,
which he asked might be laid before the
President Immediately.
THE WRITTEN PROTEST.
The written protest reached the Depart
! ment at ? Of today. The minister states he
objects TO the bill mainly for the reasons it
renews the Scott Law of 1888.
2-It Geprives the Chinese Of the right of
bail in habeas corpus cases.
sit requires registration OF Chinese
laborers which it is practically impossible
for them to comply with, as they must all
prove by white witnesses they are lawfully
entitled to be in the United Sta es, and as
by the first exclusion law passed in 1882
every Chinaman must produce before the
collector of internal revenue q white wit
ness who knew him ten years ago, and can
swear he was in the United States at that
time.
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES.
This law leaves the issuance of certih-
Gates of registration entirely to the dis
erection of the revenue officer, and provides
no way of compelling him to do justice to q
Chinaman. He must register and produce
his evidence in the district where he re-
sides. His white witness may be three
thousand miles away.
Senators vino carefully examined the
bill announced in the Senate, say its prac-
teal effect viii be TO compel all Chinese
laborers 10 leave the United States within
the year fixed for registration. Sherman,
= chairman OF the Foreign Affairs Commit
} tee, s2id this registration was similar to
7 the slave regulations in force before the
civil war, ana to the ticket-of-leeve Of tbs
1 Australian convict system.
THE TREATY OF 80 VIOLATED.
The minister said these features OF the
bill are in direct violation OF the treaty OIL
5 1880. which guarantees Chinese laborsrs in
n the United States the treatment Of the
subjects of the most favored nations. He
. further says the treaty of 1880 was agreed
: to by China at the express request of the
: United States, which sent three of its mos
. distinguished citizens to Picking to ask fol
: it, He declined to state what course hi
. government would take on account of TIT
passage of the bill.
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