Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — THE NEW CHINESE TREATY. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW CHINESE TREATY.

‘ Its Term, and Provisions—The Letter! ot ! . Trausmlg.ion— The Indemnity. i The new Chinese treaty and tbe letters of President Cleveland and Secretary [ Bayard accompanying it to tho Senate I were printed Wednesday. The Presii dent, in his latter, recommends that the treaty be approved by the Senate and . also uigis tbat the full text be made public. Secretary Bayard,in his letter of transmission to the President, rays the , treaty provides for the absolute prohibition ot Chinese laborers coming intn the United Slates for twenty years, and provides also for its renewal thereafter unless notice shall be given ol a contrary determination. The treaty, he says, forbids the incoming of Chinese laborers from any quarter whatsoever, with the exception of any laborer who has a law* ful wife, child or parent here or property of the value of 11,000 or debts to that amount due him. These exceptions are just, says the Secretary, will be few in number and easily regulated. Such right of return is for a limited period and certificates are invalidated by fraud. The United States has sole power to check abuses iu any way it may see fit. Article lof the treaty provides that the treaty shall remain in force twenty years, prohibiting, except under certain conditions, the coming of Chinese laborers to this country. Article II provides for the exceptions which permit of the return of a Chinese laborer who has a wife, child, parent, property valued at 51,000, or debts of a Ilze amount due him. On leaving the said Chinaman shall give a full description of that which he leaves behind, in return receiving a certificate allowing him to return within one year, which period may be extended in case of sickness or other disability, the latter facts to be substantiated by proper authorities.in China. Article 111 continues the exceptions of the present treaty in relation to officials, teachers, students, etc., from China, and permits Chinese laborers to pass through America in transit from one country to another. Article IV secures the full protection of U. 8. laws over Chinese residents in this country the same as over citizens of the most favored nation and all rights except that of becoming naturalized citizens. ■ Article V, while denying the liability of the United States for inj aries and losses sueffred by Chinese in certain remote quarters of this country, agrees to pay $276,816,75, which the Chinese gavrenment shall accept as full indemnity.:— — Article VI provides that unless notice shall be given six months before the expiration of tbe treaty by either government its provisions shall be in force for another like period of twenty years.

Gould and Bennett. In answer to Jama Gordon Bennett's reply to his recent charge that ae desired to use his official connection with telegraph companies to advance the interests of the Herald, at the expense of competitors, Jay Gould has written an open letter, reiterating the charges. He further says: ‘‘As the Hera 11 says Mr. Bennett would not sit at the sime board with me, it seems proper for me to state the objections I might have to such an association with the editor and proprietor of the Herall. Let me see: I have known you over thirty years, and during that time your life has been but a succession of debauches and scandals, so that your name is associated on every tongue as “Bennett the libertine," and however gentlemen might meet you at clubs or hotels, not a gentleman in New York, as you well know, would alliw you to cross the thresh-holl of his residence, where virtue and family honor are held sacred. Yonr very touch in the social circle is contamination.” >

Prohibition in Missouri. Owing to the political excitement in Missouri over the approaching National Democratic Convention, the Prohibition leaders have decided to take a rest and no more elections will be held for two months. Eighty-two counties and twenty towns of more than 2,500 inhabitants have voted. Forty-nine counties have voted “wet” and thirtythree “dry.”