Will any Senator get up here and clai that if this bill passes tonight and is signed by the President tomorrow there is a single treaty right which this country can enforce in favor of any of its citizens against the Empire of China? fYet this is to be given up rather than give a six months notice to our own citizens who are concerned. rather than make an attempt by diplomatic methods to induce the Emperor of China to abandon a right for his subjects which these very gentlemen who argue for this bill say he is indifferent to. Both the Senators from California and the Senator from Nevada have toldus that the Emperor of. China is opposed. or. at least. is indifferent to the emigration of his subjects. and yet rather than ask him to abandon voluntarily a right which he does not deeire to have exercised on behalf of his subjects. if the full and careful studies of the Senator from Nevada can be depended upon as authority. it is proposed to overthrow by a single blow every right to the commerce which the merchants of the United States have depending upon treaty stipulations %1t China. But. as I said. Mr.
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