Speech #450112622

What is that notice ? First. that the Government of the United States deems the existing treaty stipulations.-and I mean by that term only so much of the treaty as facilitates and sanctions migration.-nnsatisfactory. and. more than that. pernicious. which word was intended as a strong and significant I one. and that the Government of the United States wishes by treaty. not merely to modify those stipulations. but to go to the root of the thing itself and dealing with that to obviate and correct the evils complained of. Proceeding. the substitute enacts that a period after a short interval shall be the period by or before which a now or supplemental treaty may be made. and submitted to the Senate of the United States. that being. along with the Executive. the treatymaking power. and that unless by the 1st of January. 1880. (which is ten months hence. and as soon as any session of Congress ofter this. as far as we can discern. could possibly take action.) a treaty has been solemnized averting. correcting. eradicating this greatevil. the lawmaking power of the United States will proceed to do two things: first. by municipal law of our own to put a stop to Chinese immigration. or. in the very language of the substitte. to "regulate or prevent." that is to moderate- or altogether check the flow of Chinese immigration. and that. all treaty stipulations to the contrary notwithstanding. we now give notice that after the lst of January next we shall regard everything between the United States and the Enmlire of China which authorizes or tolerates immigration. utterly at an end. Mr. President. there is something more than a promise in that.