I believe. capable of taking an entirely unbiased and unprejudiced view of what the social and economical requirements of the country in regard to this question are. The period of ten years will allow a sufficient timeto elapse in which the passions of men will subside. It will allow another census to be taken under which we shall be able to contrast the statistics of labor and of production under the condition of things as it now exists and that which will obtain when Chinese immigration has been prohibited. and beside this it will. in my judgment. comport more absolutely with thatfairdealing which we are tinder old igation to observe toward the Government of China. in declaring that this prohibition shall not be absolute. The insertion of theperiod of twenty years appears to me to be an infraction of the agreement in the first article of this treaty that the suspension shall not lie absolute. I shall therefore hope that the Senate will agree to the modification suggested by the reduction of the period named from twenty years to ten.
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