Speech #470057070

A Republican President vetoed the bill kebp him from being ground down by the capitalists by employing because of that provision. A national election was approaching. and Chinese labor so cheaply that the white man. or the American citisomething had to be done to quiet the apprehension of the people of zen. if you prefer the term. is unable to live at the prices for which the Pacific States. A commission was appointed after this legislative these immigrants will work. and by reason of this Chinese labor are declaration. with the pledge of the Republican party. through the being oppressed and degraded. executive branch of the Government. which it controlled. that this Some time ago in another debate this Senator. in referring to the legislativedeclarationshouldberespected. thecommission. allRepub- condition of laborers in the Eastern States. made a statement to lican. was sent to China to negotiate a new treaty touching Chinese which I wish to call attention now as a means by which I may be immigration. and what was the result? Iusteadofour commissioners able to enlighten him and those who think with him on this matter insisting upon what we had a right to expect. and which had been and give him and them some understanding of what the agitation of distincty formulated and declared by legislative expression. both the Chinese question upon the Pacific coast means. how extensive it Houses of Congress concurring. one of which is a part of the treaty- is. and how farreaching in its effects it must become in the future. making power of the country. instead of the executive department On the 21st of December last. in respending to some remarks by the under the control of the Republican party insisting that the legisla- honorable Senator from Kentucky touching the tarifftive will of the country should be carried out and executed. they fell commission bill. the honorable Senator said: short of the main and principal point and accepted from the Chinese I understand that the great question of tariff or no tariff. and of comparison Government a treaty in which the Chinese Government concedes between the tariff policies of other countries and this. depends upon the question to us. not as a right belonging to us as an independent sovereigp whether the American rate of wages can be maintatned. people. but as a concession from the Chinese Empire. that we may Precisely what we desire in California and Oregon. We desire to restrict the coming of Chinese laborers.