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That was denied by the Senator from Delaware. I hold in my hand a resolution adopted by the Senate on the 1st of March. 1888. on the report of the Committee on Foreign Relations. which reads as follows: Resolved by the Senate of the United Slates. That. in view of the difficulties and embarrassments that have attended the regulation of the immigration of Chinose laborers to the United States under the limitations of our treaties with China. the President of the United States be requested to negotiate a treaty with theEmperor of China containing a provision that no Chinese laborer shall enter the United States. It was not until the 16th of March following that the treaty was transmitted to the Senate by the President of the United States. and I am able to state upon the very best of authority that about the t:me that resolution was reported. although there had been some negotiation between the State Department and the Chinese Government some time before. there had been nothing since about the I st of the preceding May done in regard to that. So I reassert and repeat what was stated by my colleague this morning. that the treaty was not negotiated until after the Senate had passed the .resolution which I hold in my hand.