VllioahiaLion or suspension shall be reasonable. Now what was the intention of the commissioners of the two governlneuts who made this treaty when they used this phrasology 7 To ascertain this it is necessary to refer to aprotecol contair.ing tire nenioralutia and conversations which were had between thoce commissioners. We find that in the first place the Chinese conmnissioners supposed our conmmissioners had come to obtain by treaty the right to regulate and restrict Chinese immigration on the p)ints to which I have referred. namely. to prevent the introduction of disease. pauperism. crieni. and cooly labor into the United Stat H. The Chinese commissioners at once stated that they wero ready t o negotiate upon these points. They called the attention of our conunmisioners to the fact that Mr.
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