Case
of the Chinese Wife (1884)(Sawyer,
J.)
nPetitioner’s argument:
nTreaty provides “all Chinese laborers who are now in the
United States shall be allowed to go
and come of their own free will
and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are
accorded to the citizens and subjects
of the most favored nations;”
n‘Rights and privileges’ accorded to citizens of all
other nations, are, to come of
their own free will and accord, and
to bring their wives and children with them;
nThe treaty secures these same rights and privileges to returning Chinese laborers of bringing their wives and children with them.