CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881 — Page 455

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THE UNITED STATES.

(BY ANGLO-AMERICAN CABLES.)

PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 14. The President has sent to the Senate two treaties negotiated with China. Both are regarded as cer- tain of ratification when considered noxt week. The Emigration Trasty provides that whenever in the opinica of the United States Government the coming of Chinese labourers to the United States, or their residance therein, affects or threaten to affect the intorests of that country or endanger its good order, China agrees that the United States may regulate the limit or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it. This limitation or suspension shall be reason- able, applying only to the Chinese who may go to the United States as lahmurers, other classes not being included. The legislation taken shall be only such as is necessary to enforce the regulation of the limitation or the suspension of the emigration. The emigranta shall not be subject to personal maltreatment. Other Chinese subjects, with their servants, visiting the United States and the Chineso labourers now in the United States shall he allowed free movement, being accorded all the privileges given to the subjects of the most favoured natiou. If the Chinese now in the United States are ill-trestad, the United States wili exert all its power for their protection under the treaty rights. Whenever ander this treaty the United States adopts legis- lative measures, they will be communicated to China. The treaty was signed at Pekin on November 17, and ratifications are to ba exchanged in one year. The Commercial Treaty binds each Government to give most careful and favourable attention to such special extension of the commercial intercourse as either may desire. China and the United States mutually agree and undertake that the Chinese subjects shall not be permitted to import opium into any of the United States ports, and the citizens of the United States shall not be permitted to import opium into any of the open ports of China, to transport it from one. open port to another, or to buy or sell opium in! any Chinese open port. This absolute prohibi- tion, extending to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of either Power, to foreign vessels em ployed by them, or to vessels owned by them and employed by others for the transportation of opium, shall be enforced by appropriate legisla- tion by China and the United States. China agrees that no other kind or higher scale of tonnage dnes or duties on imports, exports, or coastwiae trade shall be imposed or leviod in the Chinese open ports upon American vessels or upon produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported or ex- ported in them, or transported coastwise, than are imposed on vessels or cargues of any other nation or those of Chinese subjects. A similar provision is made for Chinese vessels and cargoes in American ports. All controversies in China between the Americans and the Chinese needing decision by the public officers of the two nations shall be tried by the proper officers of the nation- ality of the defendant. The proper officers of the plaintiff's nationality shall be freely permitted to attend the trial, shall be treated with courtesy, granted proper facilities for watching the proceed. ings in the interest of justice,and, if desirous, shal have the right to be present at the examination and cross-examination of the witnesses. If dissatis- fed with the proceedings they may protest against them in detail. The law administered will be the law of the nationality officer trying the Signed, Pekin, November 17. The ratifications will he exchanged in one year.

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