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Show M. AMI.tllIM-r. I.MIISI.ITIUN' Tin: Ueary Chlnrtu exclualon bill la netting with ttrong and Intelllgentop poaltlon In the Senate, Among lit opponents op-ponents It Renalor John Hherman. It appeata from the dhcuailon tho meat-uru meat-uru hat provoked that the bill prohlblle thu return of formtr Ctilmio rttldeuta who havu gone to China on vlilta believing be-lieving that they would im alloKi'J to return, ea would be the caie under the eilttlng lawa. They Include merchant! who havo left their luilnm here, Thoeewho oppote thu Geary lueaaure contend that thla prupnanl treveullon would be prartltal conllrcatlon of the property of thoae ptraooa, amounting to nuuy hundredt of thouaandt cf dollara. Alao that thu provlllona of the bill wuuldbe in violation of au International trraty, which cannot In honor bo violated vio-lated by a clvlllied nation. Theie are ttrong polutt pertrn tory conllicatlon of the property ef people letongtug to a country with which the United Htatta are at peace, nud a bleach of International treaty. There areaoclologlcal and moral ques-tlona ques-tlona connected with tho Inert am ol Chinamen In thla couutrj. TlureUa iroptr deiuen, aa n matttr of aell-, aell-, reservation, for excluatve legltlatlon nltti regard to that nallonallly. It ouijht, however, In thu main at If ail, to Lu confined to lurther additions to thu poulatlon from the Chlutau implre. 11 ought not lo violate rlghta of I rotierty orbllgatloua of trcatlea, both ot which thould be tacred Judging from the atatcmenta made with regard to the (it ary bill, It would nerd hut one clauiu to mtku It a niott uumlllgntedly sweeping toe aturr thu eiula)on from this country of thu Chlutau part of tho poulatlon. The o pouenta of the uuw bill aru hading fnhau the limit ot the promt Irgla-latlou Irgla-latlou extended an that It might remain re-main for tttiothtraurlea of jeart. Thlt dra aeema to be rearonal le. The Chlneiu In thla cimutry are not nt all prolific, and If exclurlvu leglalallon la madu to ap I) ouly to new romers from tliuitnplre, thu race woull lu crime of tlmu dwlndlu away In the United Stales, aud tho question would retllu lliell by a natural proceat. In any uent, the nation cannot atlord lo Ignore thu rlghlaof the ptoplu of any nationality, including Chlnamtu, |
