The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-01
ANTI-CHINESE LAWS
China Will Adopt a Policy of
Retaliation.
FIRST SHE WILL FILE A PROTEST
Against the Enactment of such Laws as the
Geary and stump Bill and sever
Diplomatic Relations.

lSpecfalto THE HERALD-EXaminer Dispatch
New YORK, Feb ga World special
from Washington says: China will strenu-
ously protest to this government against
the enactment of such Chinese exclusion
laws as are proposed in the Geary and
Stump bills now before the House of
Representatives. II such laws are enacted,
China will retaIiate. She will expel all
American missionaries, teachers and their
families-about three thousand families
and all Americans engaged in any business
within the Chinese empire; and she will
sever diplomatic relations with this gov
eminent. This decision was arrived at
after long consultation by correspondence
with the Chinese minister and this decision
viii be officially impaired to our govern
ment when any Objectionable bill passes the
House and gets SO far along in the Senate
as TO make its passage seem probable.
whether this much has been officially com
munlcated to Secretary Blaine or TO the
Senate committee on foreign relations,
your correspondent did not learn but tuere
are indications in both the Senate and the
state department that it has. The status
OF the anti-Chinese legislation is this: The
Senate has passed Dolph's bill, which sim
P-J IL ShoSls lAO pLONISlOuS VI JlS present
Scott exclusion law, the ten years limita-
ton OF which will soon expire The only
neA feature in Dolph's bill is q provision
for deporting Chinese convicted in this
country.
In the House the committee on foreign
relations early and favorably reported Mr..
Geary's rigid exclusion bill and it is now
on the calendar for final passage. The
House committee on immigration has IA
vorably reported Mr.. Stump's bill, which
merely paraphrases Geary's. To the Sen
ate bill the Chinese government makes no
obIecuon. 1t merely extends the present
exclusion laws, which do not exclude.
The Dolph bill was rushed through the
Senate with peculiar haste in view of this
discovery, made by your correspondent,
regarding China's determination. II looks
as if the Senate foreign relations commit
tee had desired to head Off any radical
measures from the House. 1T is TO certain
provisions in the House bills that China
objects and for the enforcement of which
she will retaliate. The Geary bill provides
for the absolute exclusion of all Chinese
persons, merchants or laborers, aud pro-
hibits the return to this country of any
Chinese merchants who may ever leave it.
There are many other new provisions. but
1t is to the exclusion of merchants now here
who may leave that China particularly
objects. China takes this position
Chinese merchants doing business
in the United States are here under
warrant of treaty. If they are prevented
from continu ng in their business through
being forbidden to go and return from
China, then China must and will forbid
citizens of this country to do business in
China. She will retaliate in kind, but
to show her sense of offended dignity will
go farther and end all diplomatic relations
with the United States. A man here who
knows exactly what lie is talking about in
this regard was asked if China would in
retaliation expel all Americans even if
such action should be considered cause for
war by the United States. He answered:
China, as nation, is patient Patience
is cardinal virtue of Chinese diplomacy.
Moreover, her people are not warlike. Yet
l know China will take this action. fully
conscious of all possible results"
You mean that China would fight?"
II mean that China will retaliate regard
less of consequences, anu she believes she
will have the sympathy of Europe, for, 1t may
be asked, If the United States claims and
exercises the right to eXpel Chinese mer-
chants established here under treaty war
rant, may not the United States sometime
claim and exercise the right as to mer-
chants of European nations."
Was the rejection by China of Mr..
Blair as persona non grdtd when he was
offered as our minister to Pekln, an iudi-
cation of this policy!'
''Yes. China's patience is great but in
this respectit had become exhausted. She
is watching legislation here very closely,
and II there seems any Likelihood of the
passage OF the bill preventing the return OF
Chinese merchants, Mir. Blaiue will be in
formed of the view the Pekin government
takes of it. This will not be done, of course,
with any intention of influencing the action
of Congress or of the President. 1t will be
a proper first step In the direction of that
which will follow-the withdrawal of the
Chinese minister aud retaliation. The
House bill to which objection is to be made
will doubtless pass. The Senate bill does
not suit the House. as ten years very hard
struggle with such exclusion law in San
Francisco has demonstrated. The Geary
bill is nearly as air tight as it seems pos
sible to make it.n