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Show Tlc Chinese minister Protests. Washington, February 16. The Chinese Minister called at the State Department to-, day and laid before Secretary Bayard sundry sun-dry long telegrams received by him from California to the effect that there is a concerted con-certed movement in progress to drive out the Chinese from all the towns and cities of California, except San Franoisoo, and that the government of the State and the sheriffs of the various counties evince no disposition to protect the Chinese in their rights. The telegrams also assert the threatened action will not only be disastrous to the Chinese laborer class, but ruinous to the Chinese merchants of San Francisco. It is understood under-stood that the representations made by the Chinese Minister have a double purpose in view; first, to invoke the protection of the Federal government, and, second, to lay the foundation for a claim of money indemnity similar to the claims there have been advanced ad-vanced by the United States in a large number num-ber of cases, and paid by China as indemnity, indem-nity, for injuries sustained by American citizens citi-zens in that Empire. |