The complaints are numerous that our present laws are not effective. and that Chinese laborers are coming in daily in violation of them. The delay. therefore. occasioned by the Senate amendment. will not only let all those that hold certificates have time to return. but will also alow all those that may be able to get in in violation of law. Its adoption has therefore resulted in increasng instead of restricting the number of immigrants. The Senate is so earnest in itsefforts to now excludethe Chinese that it can not wait fbr a ratification of the treaty. but has passed this bill to take effect upon the happening of that event. They refused to even consider a measure to regulate this evil for ten years. I have shown that bill after bill was introduced in the Senate from 1869 to 1879. and not one of them was even taken up and considered. A large majority of the Republican members of that body voted against the bills to suspenal immigration for twenty and ten years. as I have specifically shown. and upon the grounds that the Chinese had anatural right to comebere and to bring theirproperty and to work at what and for what they chose. But now that the Chinese have consented to remain away for twenty years. they can not wait for that Government to ratify the treaty before passing a law to enforce its provisions. What.
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