President. I shall not offer a word on this subject. except to say that I have no sympathy with the argument that is made here that the law. as it is administered and applied to criminals in our own country under the guaranties of our Constitution. is not good enough for the Chinese here. As I understand the treaty between this Government and the Chinese Government we may suspend absolutely the immigration of Chinese laboreis to this country. It is accepted as the policy of both governments that that may be done. I suppose that fundamentally we have the rightand I call the attention of the Senator from Illinois to that factwe have the right to make precisely the same laws. establish the same rules and regulations in respqct to the immigration of foreigners that we have in respect to the importation of foreign manufactured goods. and we do not put them under our criminal laws. We have the right to establish those regulations which will absolutely prohibit their landing here. and if they escape those regulations we have the right to make a seizure. as we would in the case of smuggled goods.
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