Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1880 — The New Chinese Treaty. [ARTICLE]

The New Chinese Treaty.

It is announced from Washington that the State Department has received enough of the Chinese treaty by telegraph to indicate the nature of the treaty. The text of the treaty itself cannot reach this city under four or five weeks. The text of it then will be transmitted by the State Department under tho seal of secrecy to the Senate lor ratification. It is understood that this document does not change the status of American citizens in China, nor does it enter into the commercial features covered by the Reed treaty of 1858. It is in accordance with Secretary Evarts’ policy of restraining further immigration of Chinese to this country, while at the same time not going to the extreme of sending those back who are already here. No master of any vessel owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States, or by any foreign country, shall take on board from any port; in the Chinese empire or other foreign ports any number of Chinese passengers, male or female, in excess of the number of fifteen, to bring them within the jurisdiction of tho United States. Any master of a vessel who violates this clause of treaty shall bo considered guilty of a misdemeanor. No’Consul or Consular Agent of tho United States can grant a certificate to any vessel leaving Chma for this country if she has o‘n board more than fifteen Chinese passengers. The limitations do not apply to persons officially connected with the Chinese Government, or to persons rescued from shipwreck. The master of any vessel arriving in the United States shall be required to furnish a separate list of all Chinese passengers on boa rd his vessel. “Look, Suzette,” said the nurse, “at the little family of rabbits. See! the father, the mother, and the children. ” “Yes,” says Suzette, “but where’s the uurse?”