Speech #520048764

Washington. December 2s. 1887. Sin: I am constrained in the interests of that international comity which we both desire so fully to premote 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 the Chinese laborers.passed for the enforcement of the existing treaties with China. From the published letters of the judges and the public report of the proceedings in these trials the facts seem to be established that v systematic evasion of the restriction upon the immigratirn of Chinesie laborers. imposed by laws passed in pursuance of the treaties. has been and continues to be practiced by Chinese professing to have gone away from the United States and claiming the right to return hither under the provisions of the treaty. The details of these disclosures are shocking and unnecessary for repetition in this correspondence. Suffice it to say that an extensive traffic in immorality of the grossest nature. by which Chinese women are imported into the United States and brought and sold into infamy by their own countrynen. is clearly proven to have been carried on.