We did so. You paid us under this treaty $276.000 for the benefit of those persons who had been massacred and plundered on the Pacific coast somewhere. We acceded to it in consideration and in consequence of the statement made in the preamble of this treaty that the Emperor of China desired to prohibit the emigration to this country of laborers. They found it not only very inconvenient but very trying to them. in view of the antagonisms much deprecated. and the serious disorders to which the presence of Chinese laborers had given rise in certain parts of the United States." In view of all that. the Emperor of China said that he was willing and desired to prohibit the emigration of Chinese laborers to this country. If the House of Representatives desired to take that action. I have no right to impeach their motives. their honor. their integrity. their wisdom. or their deliberations.
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