The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
TREATY WITH CHINA
NEWS OF ITS SIGNING REACHES
 WASHINGTON.
Great Satisfaction Expressed by The State Department-Two Ports of Manchuria to be Open
 to Our Goods.

ment was informed today that the Amer ican-Chinese treaty has been signed at Shanghai and that the Japanese Chinese treaty will be signed this afternoon. The cablegram announcing the signing of the treaty was sent from Shanghai and was signed by Minister Conger, Consul Gen. eral Goodnow and MT. Seaman. the three commissioners who negotiated the instru- ment. An imperial decree by the Chinese government has made the treaty effective so far as that government is concerned, but it must be ratified by the United States Senate before notifications can be exchanged, and the treaty put into oper- ation.
 Great satisfaction is expressed at the State Department at the outcome as it makes certain that two ports in Manchu- ria will be opened to the United States no matter what the outcome as to the negotiations as to the evacuation of that territory by Russia may be. The as- surance that Russia has previously given and to which this government would in- sist upon adherence, is that the treaty arrangement made with China covering Manchurlan ports will be binding upon the Russian government.
 The negotiations between China and the United States, which eliminated in the treaty signed today at Shanghai were initiated under the provisions of Article F of the final protocol signed by the pow CTS at Pekin September ', 1901, terminat- ing the anti-foreign outbreak of the e. ceding year. The present treaty has for its object the extension of commercial re- lations between the contracting powers by amending our existing treaty of com merce and navigation with China. and other subjects concerning commercial re- Iations, with the object of facilitating them.
 Articles i. 2 and 3 refer to the rights and privileges of diplomatic officers, con- suls and citizens of the United States in China, and embody 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 It the Chinese government recognizing that the present system of levying duties upon goods in transit and especially the system of taxation known as likin im- pedes the free circulation of commodities to the general injury of trade, undertakes after the ratification of the treaty and at a date to be mutually agreed upon, to abandon the levy of likin and other tran sit dues throughout the empire and to abolish all the barriers and tax stations maintained for their collection
 The United States, in consideration of this change agrees if all other powers having treaties with China do likewise, to pay at the port of entry on all it's imports into China a sur tax of one and one-half times the tarif import duty. By this payment they shall secure com. plete immunity from all other taxation, whatsoever, within the empire. Exports from China shall pay 71s per cent ad valorem (as at present., the whole amount of the duty, but collected at the port of exportation.
 These are the salient points of this article, which officials believe may bring about complete and salutary reform In the fiscal administration of the em- pire. and enable the central government to derive much larger sums from the internal taxes than it now does, when the cost of collection is perhaps 50 per cent of the whole
 The remaining provisions of article relate to the method to be followed in abolishing the present internal tax levy ing system and provides the method of investigation of complaints and declares that an imperial edict shall be issued setting forth the abolition of like taxa ton and charging the various high of- ficials of the empire with carrying 1t out.
 By another art-cle the Chinese govern ment agrees to the establishment of bonded warehouses by citizens of the United States at the open ports of China.
 By Article 7 the Chinese government recognizing that it Is advantageous for the country to develop it's mineral re- sources and that 1t is desirable to at- tract foreign as well as Chinese capital to embark in mining enterprises, agrees within year from the signing of the treaty to conclude the revision of it's mining regulations, so that citizens of the United States may be able to carry on increased territory mining operations and other necessary business connected herewith.
 Article provides for the protection of trade marks in China.
 Article 10 provides for the protection of patents and Article II for the nro- lection of copyrights.
 By Article 1S, the Chinese government agrees to take the necessary stems to provide for uniform national coinage which shall be legal tender throughout the empire.
 Article IA relates to Chinese Christians and to missionaries It insures to the former the free exercise of their religion and protects them against the injustice of the native officials. while not, how ever, removing them from their jurislic- | tion or claiming for American mission aries the right to interfere with the ex- ercise of the native authorities To the missionaries it secures what they have sought Tor years, a recognition of their l right to rent and lease in perpetulty such | property as their societies may need in | all parts of the empire
 At the request of the Chinese govern | ment an article has been incorporated in the treaty by which the United States consents to the prohibition of the impor- | tation into China of morphia and of in struments for its injection.
 Another article of the treaty provides for the opening to International trade in l the same conditions and manner as oth- CT places now opened to like trade in China of the cities of Fend Tien Fu (Mukden) and Au Tung. the first the