Show THE objections what points the chinese minister raised against tho the bill by ily IV U tele epli to tho the washington april G following is tho the text of drafted by the chinese minister concerning the chinese bill and transmitted to the senate yesterday in connection with president arthurs veto m message c ss ig e first the tho time fixed in the tile bill namely twenty years is unreasonable the language go of article of the treaty that laborers shall not be absolutely sol from coining coming to the tile united states and that sus suspension on shall bo be reasonable as well as the negotiations indicate that a brief period was intended the total prohibition hibi tion of the tile immigration of chinese laborers into the united states for 20 years would in my in opinion bo be unreasonable and a TiYa violation tion of tho the meaning and intent of the treaty second tho inclusion of skilled labor in the bill is in opposition to the words and intent of the treaty it will act a harshness upon a class clais of chinese merchants entitled toad mission to tho the united states under the tile terms of the treaty viz shoe merchants and cigar manufacturers and merchants of chinese chinon goods they sell at their places of Ni nosiness siness and find to shut out skilled labor they needs would practically shut them out as well since it would prevent them from froin carrying on their business in this country the laundryman who keeps his shop and his small capital with which to prosecute his trade cannot in any just sense be included in ill the class of laborers and merchants tailors come in the same category third the clause of tho bill relating to the registration and to passports are a vexatious discrimination against the chinese residents and immigrants ami rants article two of the treaty arm provides es explicitly that they shall bo be entitled to all the privileges conceded to subjects of the most favored nation the exclusion of these provisions of the bill will cause irritation and in case of the kossof loss of the tho passport or certificate of registration chinese residents entitled to remain may bo be forcibly expelled from the tile country fourth if the bill becomes law it will leave an impression in china tint its government strangely misunderstood the character of the tile treaty or that congress Congre rs lias has violated some oflus of its i provisions and this will tend to create a prejudice among the intelligent class against the united states government and the people whom they now greatly y admire and respect fifth there is no provision in the bill for the transit across tho the united states of chinese subjects now residing in it foreign countries largo numbers of chinese live in cuba andeer u and other countries who cannot return homo home without crossin crossing the territory of the united states or touching at san francisco to deny this privilege is is seems to roe me in violation of international law and and the comity of nations nation I and sand if the tile bill becomes a law it will in this respect also result in ill area great t hardships to many thousands of innocent chinese in foreign countries |