I have stated that we havo a power to abrogate a treaty. We may abrogate it in gross or we may abrogate it upon an immaterial point. but we may not suppose for a single moment that if we seek to annul and abrogate a single clause in that treaty it will remain binding upon the part of the government of the other party that negotiated it with us. So. if we shall abrogate that article which allows the. free immigration of Chinese into this country. it is an annulment and an abrogation of that treaty in all its parts if the Emperor of China shall so think fit to regard it. Go one step further. and what did we do here in this body at our very last session in relation to the treaty of Washington ? There was an award made under that treaty by which we were compelled to pay to the government of Great Britain five and a half millions of dollars for the right to fishin British colonial waters.
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