The observations of the gentleman from Texas may be very pertinent upon some other bill when our domes tic affairs are under discussion. but this is a measure touching our rela tions with the Empire of China. and growing out of the principles o justice among men and the obligation under which we have placed ourselves by the third article of the treaty of 1880 with China. by which we solemnly promised to protect Chinamen in the territory of the United States who meet with ill treatment at the hands of any other persons. We are to protect them not only against our own citizens. but Welsh and Swedes not naturalized and all other personswhen they are within the United States. and to secure to them the same rights as the subjects of the most favored nation. The gentleman who has just taken his seat said that the passage of this joint resolution would be a dangerous precedent. Let me remind him that it is in the line of precedent. and it would be a violation of the national duty not to follow here as a Christian nation the policy and course which our Government has adopted over and over again in dealing with questions of this character.
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