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Bayard had written a letter to the Chinese minister proposing a treaty almost substantially the same as the one that was concluded. I will read an extract from the letter of Mr. Bayard dated the 28th of December. 1887. to the Chinese minister: Sin: I am constrained. in the interests of that international comity which we both desire so fully to promote and sustain. to attract your excellencys attention to certain late disclosures in the course of judicial proceedings at San Francisco. in which certain Chinese subjects were arraigned for violation of existing laws of the United States relative to the restriction of the immigration of Chinese laborers. passed for the enforcement of the existing treaties with China. In that same letter the following language is used: In tznsidering the remedy I havegreat satisfaction in finding a complete accord between the Government you so honorably represent and that of the United States. in desiring an absolute prohibition of Chinese laborers from coming into the United States from China. So that in this letter of the 28th of December. 1887. several months prior to the time indicated by the Senator from Oregon. there had been such communication and interchange of views between the Chinese minister and Mr.