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 riots be paid to China, and the sum of $276,619 was accordingly appropriated by Congress for that purpose.

The President was, however, unwilling to allow the stain of treaty violation to rest upon the honor of the United States, and the Secretary of State entered anew into negotiations with the Chinese minister in Washington, which resulted in the signature of a treaty in 1894 similar in most respects to the unratified treaty of 1888, and which was accepted by both governments.

The treaty of 1894 stipulated for the prohibition by the United States of the admission of Chinese laborers for the term of ten years. In anticipation of the expiration of that term the Fifty-seventh Congress took up the subject of the reenactment of the existing legislation, which would come to an end by limitation. The sentiment against Chinese immigration had strengthened with the lapse of time, under the increasing political influence of labor organizations, and bills of like character which added still further restrictions to those in the existing laws were reported by the respective committees in the two houses. The prohibition of the immigration of Chinese laborers was made perpetual; those lawfully in the United States were not to be permitted to pass to or from the insular possessions and the mainland territory; conditions were added to the admission of merchants, scholars, teachers, and travelers which amounted almost to a prohibition; limitations were placed upon the transit of Chinese laborers through the territory of the United States en route to other countries; and other provisions were