It is a dishonest codification if it is anything else. To consider the merit. the demerit. the value. the particulars of all existing laws with a view to their change and improvement. is a wholly different thing. I abstain from expressing all opinion. as I begged tle honorable Senator from California to do. as we must be economical of time.tonchin g those who should or should not be included in the naturalization laws of the country. I abstain from it because I repeat. and I beg the Senator from Connecticut to listen to me when I repeatif he thinks I am right to withdraw his amendment for I think logic requires him to do it.-that we are now simply engaged in making a truthful completion of that work in which commissioners. comnittees. and Congress have been engaged. which has no more to do with the merits or the defects of the laws as they exist than the painting of a portrait truthfully has to do with the beauty or the deformity. the line or the age of the original from which it is painted. If the portrait is true it isa "counterfeit presentment." If this codification is trie and honest. it is a reproduction of the laws as they stand. and not a production of the laws as the Senator from Connecticut thinks they ought to stand and as ho is abundantly able to make them stand when we arc considering a bill appropriate for that purpose.
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