On May 5 next the act approved May 5. 1892. known as the Geary law. and which continued in force the then existing laws prohibiting and regulating the coming into this country of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent. will expire. and the Executive Department will be without the requisite authority and power to debar from admission the Chinese whose exclusion is so essential in the interest of the laborers of the United States upon the Pacific coast and elsewhere. Mr. President. that the Congress has the most plenary power to enact into law the bill before us there can be no doubt. for the power to exclude undesirable aliens is an inherent attribute of national sovereignty. Our laws with respect to the exclusion of Chinese laborers should be stringent. and they should be so administered that they will be effective. This is in the mutual interest of the United States and the Chinese Empire. for it will avoid inevitable friction and discontent and the disturbance of those friendly relations which always have subsisted and which now happily exist between the two great powers.
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