IAMLIN. I am not going to evade it. I will come a little about emigration from European states as contrasted with that. they nearer my colleague than the Senator from Ohio. I will take it into certainly are forgetting history and forgetting themselves. consideration now. I will meet every question as it shall arise. and My honorable colleague and the Senator from Wis- I. will state to my colleague how I would meet it when it shall arise. consin [Mr. HowE] voted that the Chinaman ought not to be a citizen It has not arisen now. When the time shall come that I become satof this country. voted that he ought not to become a voter in this isfiedthatthepopulation of China will overrun our country. and there country. My honorable friend says sitte voce that he did not vote that shall be danger or imminent peril from that immigration. I will join he never should. but you are like the honorable Senator from Ohio. with my colleague in abrogating all treaties with them. not one sinyou voted "no." and then proceeded to take the question "into con- gle little paragraph of a treaty. while we ask them to maintain it in sideration." which you have been doing for ten years. its integrity for all the commercial advantages that that treaty beWhen the question was up. whether the Chinaman should bea subject stows upon us and all the protection that that treaty gives us to the of naturalization. you said " no." and you said no" at a time when right of Irial by jury under our own laws. I will not meet it by an attempt to abrogate a treaty upon a little point while we are the beneficiaries in the great and substantial points. I am as indifferent to all the danger that shall come away down into the stillness of ages from tho immigration of the Chinese. Treat them. I will not say like pagans. because Confucius would shame us if we go to his counseltreat them like Christians. and they will become good American citi. zens.
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