Trumnbull of Illinois. Ross of Kansas. and Sprague of Rhode Island. It will thus be seen that the Republican majority against naturalization after the discussion was overwhelming. The whole Chinese question was then explained in these Halls by the Senators from the Pacific coast. Senator Williams. of Oregon. debated it in the most masterly manner. He was an able man. and his explanations and his speeches on that occasion will compare with the best that have been delivered in this Chamber. Th discussion was calm. deliberate. and exhaustive. and the Republican party of the North deliberately decided that they would not incorporate the Chinese in the bodypolitic. When they had taken this step. that they would not allow them to be naturalized. which was the great question involving every other question. it soon became apparent that the Chinese were invading our shores. that they were coming too rapidly. and that they were supplanting our free labor. But we had made an unfortunate treaty with China. which the Republican party were reluctant to violate. I refer to the Burlingame treaty. made in 1868. That treaty. as it was presented to the Senate. recognized the right of Chinese to naturalization by conferring on them all the privileges that were extended to any other people. But a Republican Senator from California. Mr. Conness. discovering to what that might lead. offered an amendment providing that nothing in that treaty should be construed to extend naturalization to the Chinese. which was adopted. This was the first protest against the naturalization of Chinese. It came from a Republican. No Democrat suggested it.
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