Mr. President. I know we did take the utmost care before these laws were originally passed. We gained from the Chinese a concession which probably no other nation would give. that is. a concession that we should exclude all her laboring classes. They have always maintained the position that they were opposed to the emigration of their own countrymen. their own subjects. and they yielded to us the right. before we passed the law of 1882. to exclude certain persons who were deemed unfriendly to our civilization. but. even in spite of that. we went a little beyond what I think was permitted by that treaty.
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