Did they succeed or fail in it? Need I remind this House that these commissioners had practically received their instructions from the highest source of power in this country before our State Licpartimnet lial uttered one word to them uaon the subject. The sovereign people of those United States. through their chosen representatives. had passed not one ortwo but six different joint resolutions in successive Congresses. directing and commanding the State Department to enter upon negotiations for the abrogation of the Burlingame treaty and the absolute prohibition of all Chinese immigration to this country. Not only that. but these representatives went further. Unwilling to await the slow processes of diplomacy they passed the "fifteenpassenger bill" in the very teeth of the treaty.
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