Mir. President. my absence from the sessions of the Senate during the whole period that this matter of Chinese immigration has been before the two Houses of Congress finds me now with the first opportunity to express my views in regard to the pending bill. This pending bill has as many relations to the great interests of this country as almost any single bill presented could have. In the first place. it is for the first time in the diplomatic history of this country an intervention by legislative action while there was a treaty negotiated by this Government in all its constitutional forms pending for adoption by a foreign nation. and this intervention not only rebukes and repeals our action in that diplomatic conduct of afftirs. but it immediately and absolutely affrontsthe foreign nation with the suggestion that we will no longer tolerate any such method of dealing with the matter between us.
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