My honorable colleague certainly will not think I mean anything. except the utmost kindness to him when I refer to the votes that were given on this question. especially when I say again. as I said yesterday. that had I been here I should have voted with him. But in the record of the case as read by the honorable Senator from Massachusetts the whole was not read. Pending the discussion of the naturalization question. the white amendment did come up. just as my colleague states. It was carried. a motion to reconsider was made just as my colleague states. At a later period of the same day instead of merely striking the word "white" out of the naturalization laws it came up in the form of an anendment to admit Africans to naturalization. For that my colleague voted. and disembarrassed from all of the considerations to which my colleague has referred. then it was that Senator Tmmbull moved to include " or persons born in the Chinese Empire." On that question the vote was given that I spoke of yesterday. So that the question came just as palpably. and as directly as it could come before the Senate. whether or not we would admit the Chinaman to citizenship in the United States. I repeat here today that the effect of that vote was adverse. and to be regarded as a settlement against Chinese immigration to this country on the simple ground that in a republic where suffrage is universal we cannot permit a large immigration of people who are not to be advanced to the franchise.
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