Speech #480052724

General ROSECRANS. to a report made to the Secretary of the Treasury by Mr. Wasson. in which that flet is mentioned. The bulk of the argument in opposition to tbis measure. however. seems to have expended itselfin.the assertion that Chinese immigration. under the restrictive provisions of the act of 1882. has practically ended and that there is no necessity for further amendment. Reliance in support of this assertion is had upon certain figures compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle and some characteristic utterances clipped from the Argonaut. Asto the Argonautand I say this simply because the gentleman appears to derive much satisfaction from the statelents therein madeit may comfort the gentleman to learn that the editor of that paper has been heretofore one of the foremost advocates on our coast of the policy of not only exclusion but expulsion of Chinese from this country. and so strong has been his feelings and convictions on this score that in 1880. while a delegate to the national Republican convention. he with the balance of the California delegation threatened to jumnp the party barriers and bolt the convention unless an antiChinese plank were placed in the platform.