The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-09
TREATY WITH
CHINA SIGNED
Arrangements Made viii Be
Binding Upon Russia.
OPEN PORTS IN WAECHURIA
LONG VExED QUESTION OF DU-
TIES SETTLED.

/ m department was informed TO-DAY
that the American-Chinese COM
merciaI treaty has been signed at
! Shanghai and that the Japanese-Chi-
ness treaty was to be signed this after
noon. The Cablegram announcing the
signing of the treaty was sent from
Shanghai and was signed by Minister
/ Conser. Consul General Goodnow and
Mr.. Seaman. the three commissioners
who negotiated the instrument. An
/ imperial decree by the Chinese govern
ment has made the treaty effective 50
/ far as that government is concerned,
but il must be ratified by the United
states senate before Publications can
lee exchanged and the treaty put i'm
operation.
Great satisfaction is expressed ar
the state department at the outcome
II makes certain that the two ports
i'm Mauchuria VIII bc opened TO the
United States mo- matter what the out
come as 20 the negotiations FOR The
/ evacuation of that territory 10y Russia
may be. The assurance that Russia
had previously given and to which
this government would insist upon adj
herenco. is that the treaty arrange
ments made with China covering Man
churian ports viii be binding upon the
Russian government.
Points Of the Treaty.
The principal points OF the treaty are
briefly as follows.
First, the settlement of the long
veNed question of internal taxation il
China.
Second. recognition Of Americans
/ rights of residence throughout the en-
pire for missionary work.
Third. protection of patents, trade
marks and copyrights.
Fourth, mining rights.
Fifth, opening OF new localities 10
international trade ON the part Of ihe
empire i'm which the United States has
vast commercial interests.
Sixth, right to carry on trade. indus
tries and manufactures in all parts Of
/ China.
The negotiations between China and
the United States which eliminated in
the treaty signed today at Shanghai
were initiated under the provisions Of
article IL Of the final protocol signed
by the powers at Picking on Sept. 3,
1901, terminating the aDti-fOreign out
break of the preceding year. The pres
ent treaty has for its object the eN-
/ tension Of commercial relations be-
! tween the contracting powers By
| amending our existing treaty Of com
merce and navigation with China AMI
7 other subjects concern ing commercial
relations, with the object of facilitating
them.
Article " Important.
Articles 1. > and 3 refer to the rights
4 and privileges of diplomatic officers.
consUls and citizens of the United
{ States in China. and cmbOdy a number
of changes which have been sanctioned
| by usage in China since the treaty Of
1858. Article is the most important
of the treaty. BY IL the Chinese GOV
/ eminent recognizing that the present
system of levying dues upon goods in
transit and especially the system of
taxation known as Iikin. impedes the
/ free circulation of commodities to the
general injury Of trade. undertakes
after the ratification of the treaty and
at a date 20 be mutually agreed upon
to abandon the levy of lii1in and other
transit dues throughout the empire,
/ and to abolish all the barriers and tax
stations maintained for their cOIlec-
ton. The United States, in considera-
I ton of this change, agrees. if all other
/ powers having treaties with China do
likewise, 10 pay at the port Of entry
on all its imports into China a sur tax
of one and oue-half times the tariff
import duty. BY this payment they
shall secure complete immunity from
/ all other taxation whatsoever in the
/ empire. Exports from China shall
pay ~ per cent ad vaIorem (as at
]
duty being collected at the port Of
deportation.
Better For China.
These are the salient, points Of this
article, which officials believe may
[ bring about q complete and satisfac-
tory reform I'm the fiscal administration
of the empire and enable the central
government to derive much larger sums
from the internal taxes than il now
does, when the cost of collection is per-
haps 80 per cent of the whole. The re-
naming provisions OF article 4 re-
lates TO the method to be followed in
abOlishing the present internal tax
levying system. 1t limits the places
where native custom houses can be
maintained. provides for certificates OF
identification FOR foreign imports. and
the treatment Of Chinese machine-made
goods. which are to enjoy a rebate on
the import tax and exemption from eX-
port tax. Finally it provides the meth
cd of investigation of complaints, and
declares that an imperial edict shall be
issued at a date to be hereafter fixed.
setting forth the abolition of Lkin tax
alton and charging the various high
officials of the empire with carrying it
out.
BY another article the Chinese gov
eminent agrees to the establishment OF
bonded warehouses by citizens of the
United States at the open ports Of
China
BY article the Chinese government.
recognizing that it IS advantageous
for the country to develop Its mineral
resources and that Il is desirable TO
attract foreign as well as Chinese cap
ital to embark in mining enterprises
agrees within a year from the signing
Of the treaty to conclude the revision
Of it's mining regulations so that cit--
zens of the United States may be able
to carry on in Chinese territory mining
operations and other necessary business
connected Herewith.
Article 9 provides for the protection
of trademarks i'm China. Article 10 pro-
vides for the protection of patents. and
article II for the protection of copy
rights
BY article Is the Chinese government
I agrees to take the necessary steps to
provide for a uniform national coinage.
which shall be a legal tender through
out the empire.
Rights Of Missionaries.
Article II relates to Chinese Chris
tians and to missionaries. Tt insures
the former this free exercise of their re-
ligion and protects them against the in
justice Of the native officials. while not
however. removing them from their
I illrfedictiOn or claiming for A u7erfrar,