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I. inasmuch as by this step we abrogate a most material provision of our existing treaty with China. would have gone one step further and made the prohibition. the absolute exclusion. apply. not only to those Chinese who are in the United States now. or who have been in the United States at some tine heretofore. but also to the 400.000.000 Chinese who never have been in the United States. In this connection. as I had not the opportunity frusy yesterday. I desire to refer to a remark made more than once in this Chamber by the honorable Senator from Alabama . in which he has questioned the sincerity not only of a great number of the people of the Pacific coast. but in which he has taken especial and particular pains to question my sincerity in reference to the position they occupy and I have occupied in regard to the subject of Chinese exclusion. As I stated yesterday. by way of interruption. I am willing that my record on this subject shall stand side by side with the record of the Senator from Alabama. and side by side with the record of every Democrat on the other side of the Chamber and every Democrat in the House of Representatives or in the United States.