It is in the nature of what the lawyers call es gesta. and serves to interpret the treaty. But gentlemen say a suspension of twenty years is unreasonable and that the suspension must not be unreasonable. I maintain. sir. that it is not unreasonable. and that the very purpose of this treaty was to enable the United States to control the subject and acquire the right to suspend. at their discretion. this immigration. Twenty years. sir. is a short period in the life of a. nation. especially an empire like that of China. which had all of its complete civilization. perhaps. when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the tables of the law. and which certainly was an old and reaowned empire with all its modern power unnumbered centuries before Christopher Columbus. with adventurous spirit. sailed into unknown seas in quest of unknown lands and discovered the terra ieognita which these almondeyed gentlemen are now so anxious to populate. I think this bill is right. and is in accoidance with the spirit of the treaty.
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Refers to Chinese people as 'almondeyed gentlemen'.