They did not refuse to allow us to make a prohibition of the kind of people that we wanted to exclude. but now this bill goes far beyond any proposition ever made before in the Congress of the United States. This attempts to repeal by wholesale rights acquired under existing treaties by the Chinamen who are now here and are supposed to be here under existing treaties. They were either here before immigration was prohibited or they were here in fraud of the law. and when they are here in fraud of the law I do not care what measures are taken to exclude them. I know the difficulty sometimes of identifying them. but most of them are here by virtue of our treaties and in pursuance of our treaties. many of them owning property acquired here in our country. Mr.
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