In the first pce. I will adopt the facts ard the source of the facts to which the Executive resorted. that is to say. the correspondence of the commissioners. and first I say that the agreement distinct and plain and clear. the principle which was admitted by the Chinesecommissioners andtheir governmentand which is contained here in the correspondence which accompanies the message of the Presidentthat in regard to the regulation. limitation. or stuspension of Chinse emigration to the United States. the sole discretica and the sole control were left to the Government of the United States. Ytn may call it a unilateral power if you please. but it was expiessly. exclusively conceded to the United States. It was placed there not by a unilateral treaty. but by the consent of both nations distanctly givei by the intent anti language of the treaty.
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