I voted for the bill with its provision of twenty years. and when the President sent it back I voted to pass it over his veto. although I had alreadythen been nominated and confirmed by the Senate as a member of his Cabinet. Six weeks later the Senator from Missouri voted for that very provision himself in the new bill that came in. which ultimately received the indorsement of the President. and which was identical in terms save and except that it limited the period to ten years instead of twenty years. If men who voted for the first bill thereby declared they were in favor of unrestricted Chinese immigration after twenty years. then so did the Senator from Missouri and so did all who voted in that way declare.
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