Speech #490063238

That committee reported a series of resolutions to the convention. and I heard my friend the Senator from Massachusetts as chairman of the convention declare that those resolutions were unanimously adopted by the convention. This was one of those resolutions: 0. Since the authority to regulate immigration and intercourse between the United States and foreign nations rests with the Congress of the United States and the treatymaking power. the Republican party. regarding the unrestricted immigration of the Chinese as a matter of grave concernment. under the exerelse of both these powers would limit and restrict that immigration by the enactment of such just. humane. and reasonable laws and treaties as will produce that result. I might refer. if I desired to occupy time. which I do not. to other conventions of both political parties and of all political parties. Coimuencing with 187G there never has been a national convention held in the United States of any political party that has not resolved upon this question and declaredin substance and effect. some of them stronger and some of them weaker. that the immigration of the Chinese into this country was a great evil. and one. as some of the resolutions declared. that ought to be prevented in the future. I do not wish to take up time. I simply rose to call the attention of my friend from Massachusetts to these bits of history which had evidently escaped his mind. or he has perhaps changed his opinion upon this subject. - I hope the bill will pass.