If I had my way I would do just what I proposed to do months and months ago by the introduction of the bill which I now hold in my hand. I would abrogate not all our treaties with China. but I would abrogate and repeal (after having made. as we have made from time to time ineffectual efforts to secure better terms by treaty) all those provisions in any and all our treaties with China which restrict Congress and tie up its hands and prevent us from passing a law which would forever exclude all Chinese from this country. excepting diplomatic and consular and other government officials. Inasmuch as Congress has at last. reluctantly. arrived at the conclusion that in order to grapple successfully with this nionstrous evil it has become necessary to abrogate. in part at least. our treaty stipulations with China. on the ground that they had become pernicious to the public peace and general welfare. it occurs to me it might have been as well. indeed infinitely better. had we in this measure wiped out of existence every impediment that stands in the way of an absolute ironclad exclusion act. such as I had the honor of introducing first at the first session of the Fortyninth Congress and again at the present session.
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