The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
of your flour every year and more to
bacco and other things.
The Chinese Expulsion Law.

ne sAnlneSe& EXpulSlOll Law.
The conversation here returned to the
Ghness IL Amerea hfd y se a
the immigration Of Chinese. -. J,
said he, but do not like the sp PIT.
law was made TO exclude only Chinese
laborlng mon from the United States, but
it has been so construed as to Keep OUT
all Chinese, whether they cane on ist
seers or students. | don't peileve your
government ever Intended this. ana
blame the treatment which our nation re
curry favor thereby With TIE laborins
'.NVhy look at it, the Chinese minister
went on 1T is almost mpoT;sinttl e. for 9, one ne
for an education. Take the case of Mr..
Tong, relative Of Tong, the graduate OF
Yale College, whom you met N emma I.
rich and he wanted his boy TO come here
to study. He took out the proper papers
ans sent lltm to san Francisco. When ne
arrived there the officers asked him what
he wanted to do IN the unlhea seh.eS easn
English They told, him that there were
colleges that taught English in China, and
he could 90 back there and study the ian n
Euage. They refused to let him land. he
hired an attorney and brought the mat
ter before the courts. He spent more than:
three thousand dollars In lawyers fees
and in going back and forth from China
to the United States, but in the end thcy
kept him out.
Now his younger brother is here and
In college. He came, with nine other
here as minister. He got in under the
shallow of the legation, but he had per-
feet right, under the treaty and the law,
to come in, and his brother should also
have been admitted. l know o. many
m
wanted to study here have been kept OUT:
Such things are contrary to the spirit, Of
international friendship which exists be-
tween your nation and ours, and they are'
contrary to the best interests OF tho two!
nations.
same policy Is adopted as to mer-
chants and business men who are kept
out on similar pretexts. The present
formed, will expire this year. In max
in ew one 1 hoop TO have the matter
remeded. fit cannot be remedicd there
Is no use Of putting any clause as to the:
admission Of my people in the treaty, and
If SO, shall not advocate II.
The Chinese and the Philippines.
How about the Chinese in the Philip
pines and Hawai?"
THAT is business proposition for the
United States to settle" replied the Chin
run your Pacific islands successfully with.
out Chinese labor, and that is the belief
Of your ablest men who have investigated
the situation ! came to this country
with Mr.. Idle, one of your commissioners.
lie told me that he thought the Chinese
We're a necessity to the prosperity OF the
Philippines"
WI ting Fang and the Board Of
Commerce.
What is the now board of commerce.
of which WI Ting Fang is the head,
doing?" asked ts4
IT Is trying TO push Chinese trade
Chcng. II was anxious to further Y in
the United States, and had written a
memorial Ia the Emperor asking him to
send me ucommcrcial attaches. but before
my letter got to China received one
from the board of commerce. asking me
to have our consular officers report on
all matters relating TO our American
trade and directing them to further that
trade In every possible way"
DO you send much TO the United
Statcs?' asked.
Yes replied tho minister. eve have
use Chinese goods. They want rice from
China, shoes from China; they Ike Chin
csc cloths, Chinese tea and many other
things Chinese This trade has fallen OF
for we then had almost twice az many
Chinese as we have now. Our merchants
would like to see that trade Increased,
and they are also anxious fo. multiply
their business connections IN other ways.
AT present do not think VIC are at all
difficulties with other nations and we are
in no shape TO insist upon our interna-
tional rights, ! hope. that, the day will
that all the world will grant them
PRANK G. CARPENTER. f