President. if there is any one thing that could possibly be more embarrassing to me than another it is in undertaking to address the Senate of the United States at the close of a speech from the honorable Senator from Maine. The rapid approach of the end of the Fortyfifth Congress. and the great mass of public business yet pressing upon the attention of the Senate. impel me to forego at this time any elaborate discussion of the pending measure. momentous as it is. and although of peculiar and especial interest to the people I in part represent on this floor. These considerations. in connection with the fact that I have heretofore detained the Senate on more than one occasion in elaborating my views upon the question of the constitutionality. the policy. the propriety. and the entire defensibility from every possible standpoint of not only partial but absolute inhibition by Congress. on the further invasion of our shores by the Mongolians of Asia. the existence of the Burlingame treaty to the contrary notwithstanding. shall lead me at this time to do little more than make a very brief rdsume of the grounds upon which Igive my hearty and unqualified support to the pending measure. And for an elaboration of my views and reasons I as the lawyers say. refer to a speech delivered by me in this body. May 16. 1876.
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