Immediately. therefore. another bill. limited to ten years duration and shorn of some. of the most important and necessary provisions of the vetoed bill. was. rushed through the House under a suspension of the rules. without debate. and without opportunity of amendment. This last bill is the existing law. And now. when we seek to make this law effective. when we propose to accomplish the very object which it had in view. the restriction of Chinese immigration to certain classes and upon certain conditions. we are met by arguments not affecting so much the proposed amendments. but aimed directly against the whole substantive proposition of relief. In view of the facts which I havejust recited. thatCongress within the. past six years has by four different and overwhelming votes declared in favor of this remedial legislation. I repeat.
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