Time difficulty in this matter is not in devising a form of words or framing language which. when inserted into a treaty. would obviate the objections which we make. That can be devised by the Secretary of State or by the President or by a Senate committee. The trouble is that these persons who come froni HongKong or wherever else they may start from in China. from any port fliat is open to our vessels. will come in great numbers unless we pass laws by the General Government which will reacl this immigration. Several propositions have been made by which it could be reached. I noticed that Horatio Seymour not long ago suggestcd that if the United States would pass a law that not more than ten Chinese should be allowed to land from one vessel ahywhero in the United States is would reach the difficulty. I do not know that that is best. I do not know but that it may be absolutely essential that there be an entire cessation of the immigration. This matter I had referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations in the last. Cngress.
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