Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 224.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Denby.

Department of State,
Washington, July 25, 1888.

No. 338.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, No. 646, of May 26 last, in regard to the exclusion of Chinese from Australia.

Your dispatch is interesting in its bearing on the general problem of Chinese emigration and the competition of Chinese with domestic labor, which appears to demand an effective solution in other countries besides the United States.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.