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I have been in this body under several Republican administrations and I have yet to hear any Democrat in this body undertake merely the effort to disparage a Republican administration. no matter how much we differed with it in respect of foreign policies. I was here at an era when jingoism prevailed in the administration of this country to a very alarming extent. the effects of which we have not yet quite escaped from. certainly not the moral effects. and yet due faith and credit were given to the integrity. to the honorable purpose. to the high intention of all those Republican Presidents who negotiated treaties. whether the Democrats thought they were correct ones or not. and I think we had better return to that state of feeling. and from that sense of respect that we owe to our own country. we ought to inform the outside world that we still have negotiators who are able to handle our diplomatic affairs and that we have statesmen who are at least in love with their own country. The history of Chinese immigration to this country. so far as it is affected by treaty. is a somewhat peculiar one. The Senator from Oregon. being a Republican. takes occasion to felicitate himself upon the progress of affairs. but I wish to read just two treaties in contrast with each other to show how under the present rdgime there has been an absolute reversal of that policy which was the inauguration. the beginning of the immigration of the Chinese into this land. Anson Burlingame was a distinguished American who went to China as American minister. and there commended himself by his wisdom and his ability and by his integrity to the Chinese Government to that extent that they sent him back here with plenarypowers of negotiating treaties with us on subjects which had never before that time been alluded to in our treaties with China. Mr.