I wish to say a few words in relation to this Chinese treaty which seems to have been brought before the committee this morning. I consider the Chinese question far more an Eastern question than a Western question. and daily becoming more and more so. It is quite evident to my mind that on the Pacific coast there has arisen a powerful property interest which really desires Chinese immigration. and I believe it has made itself felt in the negotiation of the pending treaty. and if the ordinary industrial interests of the Mississipni Valley. of the Atlantic Slope. of the North. and of New England. are not soon aroused to the situation. they will find themselves brought within a score of years. by the natural legitimate operation of this treaty. in direct competition with the cheap labor of the Chinese Empire. I believe this treaty gives away everything that we have accomplished by our recent legislation. and the point to which I wish to direct special attention is this: The real difficulty in all the matter is that we have placed under the treatymaking power a great question which really concerns the domestic condition of the American people and which should always remain under the lawmaking power. That question should never have been intrusted to the jurisdiction of the treatymaking power.