Senators well remember the pictures drawn to us by the Senator from Nevada not now in his seat. [Mr. Joxxs.] by other Senators representing California and the Pacide slope on this floor. I remember the horror with which they held up to this approaching cloud of Mongolian invasion. and how they felt that Christian civilization upon the Pacific coast was in danger of being overwhelmed by the tide of pagan population from the Chinese Empire. That treaty is in our hands and ought to be promptly considered. but what am the million of ourfellow. citizens that line the Pacific coast. their interests and their feelings. compared to the mighty question.whether the Secretary of the Senate. accomplished. trustworthy. and excellent. shall give way instantly to another man. or that the able and efficient SergeantatArms shall be ejected in order that another person may take his place. draw his pay. and exerciso his powers of appointment over the great body of twenty or thirty subordinate officers? -low can the comparison be made? Can Senators stand for one moment to doubt that it is our duty without delay to attend to this great international question. so deeply interesting to the whole country and especially to those citizens who inhabit the States of the Pacific slope ?
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The speaker refers to an "approaching cloud of Mongolian invasion" and a "tide of pagan population from the Chinese Empire."