Speech #500101716

I should not have alluded to this if the Senator from Alabama had not read a speech of Mr. Thurnian against the Chinese. I claim that while lie voted and spokc against the Chinese. his combination with Sumner and others to choke off debate on Sumners amendment and secure the naturalization of Chinese deprives him of the right to claim that be was in good faith opposed to the naturalization of the Chinese. If his pretensions had been siucere lie would have worked. as well as voted. to save this country from the Chinese curse. No temporary political advantage which he sought to secure by fbrcing the Republican party to adopt Sumners amendment without a bearing from Pacific coast Senators would have induced him. if he had been honestly opposed to Chinese suffrage. to join in a scheme to stifle debate.