Need I recall the bitter animosities. the sectional strife. the political and religious dissensions which marked its progress. until the problems which the wisest statesmanship had failed to solve were finally determined by the arbitrament of arms? And now before our trials and difficulties with the Ted and black races are fully ended we are invited to another and even more difficult experiment with the yellow race. If our experience has been a failure. or at best a doubtful success. with the African and the Indian. what can we expect from the Mongolian. who has neither the docility and humility of the one. nor the consciousness of inferior civilization which distinguishes the other. The bill which is now before the House puts an end to this third experiment with an alien race. Avoiding the example of the gentleman from New York I will confine myself to the merits of the bill. As to its terms it hardly needs any explanation. It proposes after the 1st of next July under penalty of fine or imprisonment. to kestrict the number of Chinese immigrants to fifteen for every vessel coming to this country. But two questions are involved in the passage of the bill. have we the constitutional right to enact such a law ? and. if so. ought we in thisinstance to exercise that right? Upon the first of these questions the decisions which have just been read from the report are. it seems to me. conclusive.
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The speaker claims that the Mongolian race has neither the docility and humility of the African nor the consciousness of inferior civilization which distinguishes the Indian.