Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1880 — The New Chinese Treaty. [ARTICLE]

The New Chinese Treaty.

While the toil text of Minister Angell’s treaty with the emperor of China has not reached Washington, the state department has received enough by telegraph to Indicate its nature. Of course the treaty will have to be ratified by the senate before becoming effective. It is understood that the status of American citizens in China is not changed, nor does it tamper with the commercial features of the Reed treaty of 1853. It is simply a modification of the Burlingame treaty, for the restraining of Chinese immigration to the United States in the future. It proyides that no master of any vessel owned in whole ori n part by a citizen of the United States, or of any foreign country, shall take on board more than fifteen Chinese at any one trip for delivery within the jurisdicUon of the United States, violation of this provision to be 9 misdemeanor subjecting such master to penalties in the way of fine and impsisonor both, to be provided for. Masters shall be required to furnish a sworn list of all Chinese passengers on board their vessels on arrival at any port of the United States, and in ease of violation fines imposed to be liens upon the vessels. The provisions of present statutes forbidding the importation of coolies and women for immoral purposes remain unchanged. The “fifteen” arrangement does uot include persons on official business for the Chinese government or persons who may be rescued from shipwreck: and generally it Is believed the amended treaty will prove satisfactory to all but the anti-Chinese extremists of the Pacific coast. Tiie treaty itself is a modification of articles 5 and 6 of the Burlingame treaty.