General HarrisonIsopposition to this measure was upon other grounds. The amended treaty was as plain -as language could make it. The power to suspend the immigration of Chinese laborers was. in plain terms and express words. surrendered to the United States. and that was all that it proposed to do. If the time. in his judgment. was unreasonable. why did he not seek to shorten it? This shallow pretext that he now makes might be believed by members of his own party if his record upon the subjectended here. but it does not. his subsequent votes too clearly disclose the convictions he entertained and which influenced and controlled his actions.
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