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Show CHINA TALKS RETALIATION Threatens Boycott ol Our Products. Great Wave cf Resentment Sweeps Over the Empire. ; Transfer of Exclusion Negotiations to Poking Intensifies Feeling of Indignation. -1- WASHINGTON, May W.A!I hope of tho success of the pending negotiations of the new Chinese exclusion treaty has for tho present been abandoned by tho Chinese Chi-nese officials as a result of tho wave of resentment that has swept over China since It becjune known that It was planned to transfer tho negotiations to Peking and that the Department of Commerce and Labor was Insisting upon Its own Inter- IM..-111011 or rne exclusion law. Reports have reached the Chinese legation of tho extent of this feeling throughout the Chinese Chi-nese emplfo and of the hostility of tho Chinese commercial guilds to American goods, which might result, It Is asserted, In a general boycott against American products, even were It possible to con-elude con-elude the exclusion treaty now. No Intention to Bring Suit. The Chinese legation here declares that here Is no Intention of bringing suit In the Supreme court of the United States In Dehuif of the Chinese excluded or deported deport-ed in view of the treatv of lx. All such Infringements of that treatv the legation holds to be diplomatic matters entlrelv and an appeal will be had. not to the courts tn Stat,? department Brleflv put. the position of the legation here, which reffecta that of the Peking Government. is stated as follows- Regulated by Treaty. Not Law. "The expiration last December of exclusion treaty of m leaves In force the treaty of 14i. The legation doc not for a moment question the right or the duty OI the Department of Commerce and Labor La-bor to enforce existing laws. The relations rela-tions of the United States and China are. however, regulated by treatv and not by luw-s. and it is to be expected that nn' v.olatlon of existing treaties will be fully compensate 1 for by Indemnity ' All Chinese excluded from' the United .Stat.-. d. ported therefrom In ...atlon ?u Jhc,.,r :'.aty ot m wh0 Present claims to treir Minister here naturally expect those claims to ricelve careful consideration. If they are found to he Just they will be presented for settlement through tho proper channels. Expect Settlement of Claims. "In tho in, migration treaty of 18S0 ar- I tide I provided that the limitation or sjspenslon of Chinese immigration to tho I nlted States shall be reasonable and shall apply only to Chlneso who may go to the united States as laborers, other classes not being Included in the limitation limita-tion ' " The first claim for damages reached th legation t.da fr..m a Chinese merchant arrested In Seattle, and Is now being Investigated. In-vestigated. John AV. Foster, former Secretarv of State and for a long time the adviser of the Chinese legation, will give the Minister Min-ister such counsel In the adjustment of these difficult questions as he may wish. Hoped tc Keep It Quiot. f?ir Chengtung Liang Cheng expressed keen regret that affairs have taken this turn. It was the hop.- of the Minister and of Secretary Hay that the fact that Mr. Rockhlll was to take up the matter In Peking would be kept quiet, bur this news has leaked out and has reached China The opposition of the Chinese to this proposed move, it Is pointed out here, arises from their belief that the Minister at Washington Is far more capable of knowing the wishes of the Chinese In this country than their own Government, and that In negotiating an Immigration treaty with the American Minister at Peking ths Chinese negotiators would be at great disadvantage. dis-advantage. Minister Maintains Silence. Sir Liang is maintaining a discreet silence si-lence about th- present situation and refrains re-frains from ciiMclsIng any official w ho has been associated In the negotiations. |
