Speech #450113345

I cannot bear to see that uncounted commerce that shall go from us to them interfered with. I can see how it shalt stimulate the industries of our land. how it shall benefit the operative and the manufacturer alike. how it shall benefit the Government and the citizens. and I can see too how it may be obliterated or retarded or prevented. We today who are against this bill are not against redressing every grievance that needs or rightfully demands redress. but the substitute subnitted by the Senator from New York is not that we will without notice. not that we will without seeking negotiation. abruptly place a rest riction upon that article in the treaty which amounts almost to inhibition. but it provides that we will give China an ampie notice that the immigration article of the treaty is not satisfactory to us. It is not. We know it. We have passed and rightfully passed legislation very strict against cooly immigration. It does not exist today. There is not anything of it today.