Session #48 · 1883–85

Speech #480052733

Mr. Chairman. I have listened with great attention to what the gentlemen from California have said as to the need of new legislation to stop Chinese immigration. and so far I have failed to hear one of them say that there is any Chinese immigration coming to their State today. It is a bill which is entitled "to execute certain treaty stipulations. " and it departs flagrantly from the particular treaty upon which it professes to be based and violates a dozen others. The bill is unfortunate. On its face its very principle of exclusion and proscription is repugnant to an American. and iris for that reason I have listened the more attentively to hear if those gentlemen could at this time give to us some satisfactory reason or some urgent facts to justify us in again taking so revolting a dose as this House swallowed two years ago when the restriction bill was passed.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT HITT
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
IL
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
480052733
Paragraph
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