Speech #520046356

In this connection I desire to call the attention of the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations to the fact that the act which is proposed to be extended by the amendment of the Foreign Relations Committee is just as much a violation of the treaty in my judgment as is the House bill. be: cause that act. which is known as the Scott exclusion act. which was passed October 1. 1888. provides that any Chinese laborer now in this country. or who was in this country at the date of the passage of that act. and who had left the country and had not returned before the passage of the act. should be absolutely and forever excluded from returning. which is in direct contravention of the provisions of the treaty of 1880.