Mr. President. I understand that the question is upon the amendment of the Senator from Kansas. to reduce the period of the suspension of this immigration of Chinese laborers. from twenty to ten years. and I rise merely to express my hoeie that the amendment will not prevail. and for the reason that this proposed law I understand to be the expression of a policy on the part of the Government of the United States in respect of the oriental populations who. by their propinquity to the States upon our Pacific coast. have endangered. in the mind and belief of the American citizens of that coast. their happiness and wcllare. and even the continuance of republica.n government itself. Under modern discoveriesthe Pacific Ocean that once was a barrier has now become a bridge. that which was once a severance has become a link. and by steam transportation the occa. instead of separating. actually unites Asia and America. In the consideration of this question there are invol red problems than which none axe more difficult and profound.
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