That is to say. after this attempt has been made to negotiate a new treaty with China. and it fails. then when we come down to the lst of January. 1880. we are precisely where we are this day. not one single step taken in the direction of preventing or limiting this migration. Then the whole subject is open again as fully and as completely as it is today. There is no provision in this amendment that the immigration shall stop. no positive affirmative legislation to prohibit it or to limit it. but we are simply to say to the Ecuperor of China. "If you will not agree to a prohibition of this immigration by the 1st of January 1880. then we will proceed to legislate. about it in our own good willand pleasure." That is all there is of it. You have not advanced one single step toward putting a stop. to this immigration by the adoption of this amendment. You have. inaugurated some red tape. and that is the whole of it. Mr.
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