The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-04-29

EXCLUSION
MEASURE
Anti.Chinesc Bill
Passes Upper
House.

WASHINGTON, AIrl 16-AftHr eight
hours Of debate the senate today
passed the plau amendment o. thc
Mltchcll-k Kahn bin. and then passed the
bin for the exclusion of Chinese from
che United states during the contuu-
auce OF the treaty with CHINA. Tne
treaty viii expire il 1894. Senator Hoar
cast the only vote against the measure.
The bill as passed extends all the
present Chinese exclusion laws during
the life of the treaty with china ana
until new treaty shall have been
made. The exclusion laws are applied
to all territory under the jurisdiction
of the United states, and the Chinese
In the new possessions are prohibited
from coming to the mainland, thus
placing a barrier between Philippine
Chinese and their American goal Chi
nese laborers are permitted to enter the
United States FOR the purpose of in
stalling exhibits and working in con
nection with exhibits at fairs and eN-
positions. The hill requires Chinese
rghtfully in nsular territory of the
United States to register within eight
months.
TO CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON. Aprn lS.--Represen-
tatives Hit. Perkins and Clark were
today appointed conferees on the part
OF the House on the Chinese exclusion
| bill President Frye tomorrow will
probably appoint Senators Plat, Dill
| lingham and Morgan conferees for the
Senate. 1t was first suggested that
! Penrose, as the chairman of the COM
mittee on immigration, would head the
conference committee, but as he Toes
not represent the spirit of the Plat
| amendment IL IL now reported he IL to
/ be replaced by Plat.
| The conferees are to get to work soon.
and before the end of next week II is
expected the President will have signed
q new exclusion bill. All signs point to
a recession on the part OF the House
and the passage OF the Senate bill with
out material change. Representative
Kahn has in mind "A number OF changes,
but nothing vital in nature
PROTESTS AGAINST EXCLUSION.
WASHINGTON, April lS.-The fol-
lowing letter from Prince Ching, pro-
testing against the exclusion OF CHI
nese from the Philippines. was today
transmitted to Congress by Secretary
Root:
II find on examination that the Phil
ippines are not far from China, and
that from the time OF the Ming dy-
nasty. which preceded the present.
down TO today IA large number OF emf
grants have gone there from Fukien
and the two Kuangs, amounting to l00.-
900. more or less. and that II is very
difficult to put a stop to the coming
and going OF their families, fellow
villagers and relations These emf
grants were formerly III treated aud
harassed by the Spanish Government.
but they were never forbidden to Ian
or harshly driven back to Chias.
Your honorable country has usually
the reputation of being lenient, and At
present your relations with China are
especially friendly There are places to
which the restrictions agreed upon IN
rast treaties apply, but. while we are
hoping that these restrictions may be
entirely abrogated, there has never
been any treaty applying restrictions
to these islands. If no distinction Is to
be made between laborers and mer-
chants, and the severe regulations are
to be applied to that place also and
are to be subjected to these harsh re-
strictions. i fear the good reputation OF
your honorable country will hardly be
able to escape injury"
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