Mr. President. it does seem to me that my friend from Massachusetts has enough on his hands of public duty to perform without reviving the discussion of four years ago on the policy of Chinese exclusion. When I reported this billI did not expect to be called upon to debate the question over again as to whether the Chinese should be excluded or not. The bill contains a few provisions which in myj udgment are improvements upon the existing law. to enable the courts of the United States to enforce the laws as they are. I did not vote for either of the laws excluding the Chinese nor for the treaty. but that question is now settled and no man dreams in our generation at least of reviving that controversy.
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