The Senator from Massachusetts and the Senator from West Virginia who followed and who cited what somebody said about the census law. insist that it is unconstitutional to declare by law that a youth sent to an ordnance school orariding school or some other institution shall be of a particular race. Then it would be unconstitutional to provide that Chinese youth should be sent here and there. as they have been. it would be unconstitutional to provide a variety of things familiarly done which I might cite. but my impression is it would not be unconstitutional at all by reason of a distinction which I think the Senator from Massachusetts will accept. Whatever may be said about the naturalization laws. which are required to be uniform. whatever may be said about the power to appoint to office lodged in the Constitution cannot be said at all. I submit. in respect of a pupil to be sent to a school. I think the arguments which we heard in reference to jurors. extreme as some of them were. never went to the extent of saying that you could not by law provide who should ride on asteamboat of which youhadj urisdiction. who should go in a public conveyance. who should avail himself of a public convenience. or by parity of reasoning who should be sent as pupils to a public seminary of learning.
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