The attention of Congress is again invited to the subject of the indemnity funds received some years since from Japan and China. which. with their accumulated interest. now amount to considerable sums. If any part of these funds is justly due to American citizens. they should receive it promptly. and whatever may have been received by this Government in excess of strictly just demands should in some form be returned to the nations to whom it equitably belongs. The government of China has signified its willingness to consider the question of the emigration of its subjects to the United States with a dispassionate fairness. and to cooperate in such measures- as may tend to prevent injurious consequences to the United States. The negotiations are still proceeding. and will be pressed with diligence. A question having arisen between China and Japan about the Low Chew Islands. the United States Government has taken measures to inform those powers of its readiness to extend its good offices for the maintenance of peace. if they shall mutually deem it desirable and find it practicable to avail themselves of the proffer.
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