In 1876 at Cincinnati at our national convention we put in a provision on the motion of the Senator from Nevada that Congress should investigate this subject with reference to legislation upon it. That was just what the Pacific coast people asked and all they asked. In 1880 we put in our platform this provision. which I will read: Since the authority to regulate immigration and intercourse between- the United States and foreign nationsrests with Congress. or with the United States and its treatymaking power. the Republican party. regarding the unrestricted immigration of the Chinese as an evil of great magnitude. invokes the exercise oftthose powers to restrain and limit that immigration by the enactmentof such just. humane. and reasonable provisions as will produce that result. Who wants anything more than that? It was satisfactory to the people on the Western coast. as it was satisfactory to the people everywhere who haye studied this question and who have had a special and direct interest in it.
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