I make no issue at this time with the Senator from Ohio. the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. with reference to this bill. I am willing that it should pass. and I am in favor of its passage. I do not agree with him. owever. that the subject of Chinese immigration in any shape in which it mar come up should not go to the Committee on Immigration of the Senate for the reason which he assigns. that that Immigration Committee necessarily relates to immigrants from nations generally. and that it does not cover the subject of immigration if it concerns only Chinese immigration. I understand that this subject was always. of course. committed to the Committee on Foreign Relations before the Committee on Immigration of the Senate was constituted at the last Congress. It was committed to that committee in the last Congress. because it was supposed that the question of the passage of immigration laws concerning the Chinese would require a careful examination of existing treaties. and the subject has gone to the Committee on Foreign Relations at this session with no objection from the Committee on Immigration. but I do understand that the subject of Chinese immigration. as well as immigration from all other nations. should be properly committed upon occasion to the Committee on Immigration of the Senate. I do not raise that question now. although I do not assent to the proposition of the Senator from Ohio. What I did wish to know was whether the Committee on Foreign Relations could inform us whether or not this was all the legislation which they expected to report on this subject at this session?
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