Speech #470034311

That is what the word "suspend" means. It means to stop for a time. We have also the power to regulate this immigration under the recent treaty. and "regulate" is a word of very broad meaning and broad signification. I do not see that it contravenes the treaty or the spirit of the treaty in the least to make this term twenty years. It was urged here in argument yesterday that the commissioners understood that the term was to be short. The commissioners refused to agree to a short term of suspension. I want to say to the Senator from Massachusetts that the leaders of the Republican party in this country caused us on the Pacific coast to believe that he and they were in favor of the restriction of Chinosc immigration. The Republican candidate for the Presidency. in speaking of the fact that a commission had been sent to China. distinctly said in his letter of acceptance that if that commission failed to obtain the consent of China to such a restriction. if their efforts there failed. it would be the duty of Congress-