The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-14
THE CHINESE TREATY.
Its Early Ratification Expected Despite
 sOyaroienis 0pposition.

its Early Ratification Expected pesP"o
 soyareign's Opposition.
 New York, July l3.-A Washington special to the Evening Post says
 At the department of state the feel ing prevails that the Chinese treaty VIII be ratified very soon. The only outside opposition to 1t, as far as the depart ment has discovered, comes from sov- ereign of the Knights of Labor, who has tried to stir up the workingmen on the theory that the treaty is substan- tial recognition of the right of the Chi nese to enter this country in large num- bers and compete with our native labor. Aside from the obvious discount placed upon anything Sovereign can say or do since his ignominious snubbing at the hands of his order, the department Is satisfied that the workingmen generally will not be deceived by any such pre- tence. The treaty as 1t stands does nothing but give the formal sanction of voluntary international agreement to the condition of things which now rests upon an ex-parte statute.
 The best evidences that there Is nothing In the treaty to excite mon- golophobia may be found in the fact that Representative Geary. the author of the present drastic law, favors hear tily It's ratification. and says that if he were In the senate he would vote for it. Senator White of California Is un- derstood to be in favor of the treaty. He announced himself unequivocally so at one time. but afterward was con strained by home pressure to make some slight reservation. It Is believed that he is all right now. His col league, Senator Perkins, opposes the treaty.
 It Is the intention of Senator Gray, who is in charge of the treaty in the ab sence of Senator Morgan, the chairman of the senate foreign relations com mittee. to endeavor to secure a day for its consideration early next week Mir. Gray said today: 'I shall do my best to push the treaty and think 1t will be accepted. It affords this country the opportunity to retain all the benefits we now have from the Geary exclusion act, at the same time that We are enabled to get them by treaty instead of standing in the posi- tion of extorting them. Moreover the advantages of extended trade rela- tions which the treaty provides for are in my opinion of great value, and such as we ought to be anxious to get. The delay in acting on the treaty. which was, of course, necessary during the deliberations on the tariff bill, is no longer to be excused on that ground and the Chinese, who are a suspicious people, will naturally wonder what the delay means. Secretary Gresham has been working very hard to secure the acceptance of the treaty." Mir. Gray added that there was no probability of an open session of the senate in dis cussing the. treaty, and expressed his opinion that thls was one of the cases where a secret session was neces- sary, in order to insure frank and free debate.
 Senator Perkins of California, who has been arrayed against the treaty since its publication, made the follow ing statement: T am and have been opposed to the treaty since the outset, and so; have most of the e. western senators, My colleague, Senator White, was taken into the confidence of Secre- tary Gresham and has been prevented from opposition. The treaty as 1t stands gives us nothing that we have not now in the Scott and Gearye ex- clusion laws and, indeed, several feat ures of it would seriously impair the enforcement of existing law. I do not think there is any reason why We should feel obliged to make this treaty out of regard for the sensitiveness of the Chinese They are sensitive when they want to be, and when 1t is policy. But they did not, even respond to the Bayard treaty and the first noti- | fication we got that 1t was unsatisfac- tory was from the British government Ever since the Burlingame treaty, signed in 1868, the people of the Pacific coast have been working for what we have now, and when no one wants a change, do not see why we should try one.
 "It would be peculiarly for my in- terest to get the benefit of cheap Chi nese labor but I think we ought tc take a broad view. know what the opinion of the people of my state is and that of the merchants of San Francisco, having been president of the chamber of commerce for many years As to opposing the treaty, of course shall do so, but I can say nothing as to the result. will say this, however that if the treaty could be debated in open session for three hours and laic aside for a week, 1t would be impossi ble to get five votes for 1t. The coun try seems to know nothing about Ii