United States be requested to negotiate a treaty
with the Emperor of China containing a provision that no Chinese laborer
shall enter the United States.

The importance of the subject referred to in this resolution has by no
means been overlooked by the executive branch of the Government, charged
under the Constitution with the formulation of treaties with foreign
countries.

Negotiation with the Emperor of China for a treaty such as is mentioned
in said resolution was commenced many months ago and has been since
continued. The progress of the negotiation thus inaugurated has
heretofore been freely communicated to such members of the Senate and of
its Committee on Foreign Relations as sought information concerning the
same. It is, however, with much gratification that I deem myself now
justified in expressing to the Senate, in response to its resolution,
the hope and expectation that a treaty will soon be concluded concerning
the immigration of Chinese laborers which will meet the wants of our
people and the approbation of the body to which it will be submitted for
confirmation.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, March 12, 1888_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty between
the United States of America and Zanzibar, concluded July 3, 1886,
enlarging and defining the stipulations of the treaty of September 21,
1833, between the United States of America and His Majesty Seyed Syed
bin Sultan of Muscat and Sovereign of Zanzibar, which treaty has
continued in force as to Zanzibar and its dependencies after the
separation of Zanzibar from Muscat, and has been accepted, ratified,
and confirmed by the Sultan of Zanzibar on October 20, 1879.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

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.

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