To Mrsister SEWARD.
Sre,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your memorandum 95, giving of a conversation which occurred in the course of a visit paid to the Foreign Office, ing the question that has arisen in Call in connection with the emigration of Chinese. You state that you mentioned the difficulties of our experience in California, owing to the habits of the Chinese and other causes, and gare ssrarances of the benevolence of our vernment and people and of our disposi to allow discrimination to be made against any closees residing within our borders, and that you also took occasion to dwell strongly need which exists of establishing Washington and a Consulate at You also state that, in reply, formed that a Mission would soon hed at Washington, and your staree to the need of a Consulate at San Francisco would be borne in mind, but that they must look to our Government to protect their people, and seemed to feel confident that the protection would be extended, and expressed the wish that their countrymen he treated as well everywhere asin the States. You also enclose a copy of a note dated 29th of June, received from the Yamen to the effect that a commun of Sau Braueleco were int earing,
ing Chinese; that the Chinese arrival in that ty were often a that the question for ti session of Chit discussed. call attention to the fifth and sixth ar the supplementary treaty with the United States, and state that the purport of this treaty is that the people of either counts may be at liberty to come and yo at will, anc kind treatment on either side should be accented. The Yamen request you to dommunicate with this Government and ask that, in accordance with the Treaty, the com of such acts may be prevented for the sake of the maintenance of friendship between: the two nations, It la not easy togive more than. general reply to the note from the Yamen, the complaints being based on no particular and asking no more than a geveral ligations. There are 1%, in fact, from the result of competition of labor, added to which same difficulties, to which you have adverted, the unwillingness of Chinese, even if blo 40 to do, to really become a part of the people of the country or to lay aside their of life and their intention to return to country. Inquiry is now proceeding i ence to all thes questions, and Con, appointed a commi Senate anit Hot coyd to Califors particular to a to their note, that the United State:
gation of all the provi which have been made with China, to carry on'
all auch provi The difficulty 18 when dealing with individual or tem-Keated not unfrequently in Chi rary excitements, such as hav
our own people or other foreigners, and th difficulty will assuredly be appreciated by th ities. Considering the largo her of Chinese emigrants who come to the red States, and cor 1g the stall nine ber of our citizens who have gone to Chin we might naturally expect more frequent caus complaint to arise from the Chinese in this from Americans in China. Such, is far from the case, Ihe Chinese come to the United States have ied in whatever business they pleased, and settled in such potions of the country as they preferred, and no restraints, x0 far residence or occupation are concerned, have Deen imposed upon them. Your suggestion, that the establishment of a Consulate at San Francisco could lend a freer communication between the two countries, was a proper one, course was intended to afford a more realy channel of redressing any particular atchiully with the grest problem, and Both nations must deal carefully
vor to prevent avy real cause of complaint in either country.
Tam yours, Jon L. CApWAILADER,
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