Mr. Blaine to Mr. Tsui.
Washington, January 31, 1890.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 16th ultimo, in which, with reference to the announcement made to you by the note of the Department dated 6th ultimo, touching the amendment made by the Treasury of its circular No. 100 of September 28, 1889, you say “it is understood that” the transportation companies engaged in the business of conveying Chinese laborers in transit, “centering at New York (through which the Chinese residents of Cuba principally pass), are unwilling to give any bond for this traffic,” such as contemplated in the amendment named.
I am highly gratified to be able to inform you, however, that, as appears by a letter of the Treasury Department of the 28th instant now before me, the Southern Pacific Company, which is understood to control a large share of the Chinese transit business, is about to execute the bond provided for in the “amendment.” The exaction of the special bond of $200 in respect of each laborer, so far as concerns those carried by that company, would in such case cease.
Accept, etc.,