EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, March 16, 1888_.
_To the Senate_:
I have the honor to transmit herewith and recommend for your
constitutional approval a convention signed and concluded in this city
on the 12th instant, under my direction, between the United States and
China, for the exclusion hereafter of Chinese laborers from coming into
this country.
This treaty is accompanied by a letter from the Secretary of State in
recital of its provisions and explanatory of the reasons for its
negotiation, and with it are transmitted sundry documents giving the
history of events connected with the presence and treatment of Chinese
subjects in the United States.
In view of the public interest which has for a long time been manifested
in relation to the question of Chinese immigration, it would seem
advisable that the full text of this treaty should be made public, and I
respectfully recommend that an order to that effect be made by your
honorable body.