I am reluctant to enter into this discussion or to delay the action of the Senate even for a moment upon this very important bill. but as the proposed substitute comes from a committee of which I am a member and meets my entire concurrence. I think it is my duty to make some statement of the grounds upon which I predicate my support of the substitute reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. I think that the real merit and essence of the attitude of the two Governments towards each other upon this question of emigration and immigration of citizens of the respective countries is perhaps overlooked in coming to a solution of this question. We started out in 1868 with this very strong declaration in the Burlingame treaty. as it is called:
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