Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-10-15
MORE OPEN PORTS.
An American-ChineSe CONNER
cial Treaty Signed.
Greater Protection for Chinese Chris
tians and American Missionaries
Is Promised by One Clause
OF the New Agreement
Other Provisions.

Washington, Oct. 9.-The state de-
partment was informed yesterday
that the American Chinese CONNER
cial treaty has been signed at Shang-
hal and also the Japanese Chinese
treaty. The cablegram announcing
the signing of the treaty was sent
from Shanghai and was signed by
Minister Congcr, Consul General
Goodnow and Mr.. Seaman. the COM
missioners who negotiated the instru-
ment. An imperial decree by the
Chinese government has made the
treaty effective so far as that gov
ernment is concerned, but it must be
ratified by the United States senate
before the treaty is put in operation.
The negotiations between China
and the United States, which culmin-
ated in the treaty signed yesterday,
were initiated under the provisions
of the final protocol, signed by the
powers at Peking on September Z,
1901, terminating the anti-foreign
outbreak of the preceding year. The
present treaty has for its object to
extend the commercial relations be
tween the contracting powers by
amending our existing treaty of com
merce with China.
Articles /, . and , refer TO the rights
of diplomatic officers, consuls 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 gov
ernment, recognizing that the present
system of levying dues upon goods in
transit and especially the system of
taxation known as lilin, impedcs the
free circulation of commodities to
the general injury of trade, under
takes after the ratification of the
treaty and at a date to be mutually
agreed upon. to abandon the levy of
likin and other transit dues through
out 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 en-
try on all its imports into China
surtaN of " times the tariff import
duty. BY this payment they shall Sc
cure complete immunity from all
other taxation whatsoever within the
eIlDlGt. ENpOIlS IIOlll Nllnd Slldll
pay ~ per cent, ad valorem (as at
present). the whole amount of the
duty being collected at the port of
expectation.
BY another article the Chinese gov
ernment agrees to the establishment
of bonded warehouses by citizens of
the United States at the open ports
of China. By Article the Chinese
government agrees, within Il year
from the signing of the treaty, to
conclude the revision of its mining
regulations so that citizens of the
! United States may be able to carry
on in China territory mining opera
| tions and other necessary business
connected Herewith. Article Q pro-
! videS for the protection of trade
marks in China. Article 10 provides
! for the protection of patents and
| Article II for the protection of copy
rights.
BY Article Is the Chinese govern
ment agrees to take the necessary
steps to provide for a uniform nation
al coinage which shall be a legal ten
der throughout the empire.
Article II relates to Chinese Lnris-
tians and 10. missionaries. II insures
to the former the free exercise of
their religion and protects them
against the injustice of the native of
ficials, while not. however. removing
them from their jurisdiction.
At the request of the CnIncse gov
! ernment an article has been incorpor-
ated in the treaty by which the Uni
ted States consents to the prohibition
of the importation into China of NOR
phia and instruments for its injection.
Another article of the treaty pro-
vides for the opening TO international
trade in the same manner as other
places now opened to like trade, in
China of the cities of Mukdep and An
tung. the first tho capital of the Man
churian province Of Shcng Ching. and
the latter port on the Ialu river on
the road between Mukden and Wiju,
! in kOrea.
FATAL LANDSLIDE.