Speech #530023909

Yes. sir. but let me remind the gentleman that JusticeField delivered the opinion of the -court in the first one of these exclusion cases. and in the opinion from which I have just read. Justice Field repeats substantially the opinion he had delivered in the first one of these exclusion acts. in which he held that the law was a valid law although in violation of a treaty. because it related only to persons who had not acquired a residence in this country. and in this opinion he is drawing a distinction as clear as daylight to the mind of any man conversant with the elementary principles of his profession and the elementary principles of international law. between a foreigner who has not acquired a residence in the country and whom you propose to exclude. and aforeigner who has acquired a residence in the country under a treaty adopted in his behalf.