Yes: the Burlingame treaty. The immigration rapidly increased. On the 2d of July. 1870. the Senate had under consideration a House bill "to amend the naturalization laws and to punish crimes against the same." An agreement having been entered into to vote on the bill and its amendments at 4 oclock p. m. on that day. about ten minutes before the vote was taken Senator Sumner. of Massachusetts. offered the following amendment to the amendment proposed by the Judiciary Committee to the House bill: And be it further enacted. That all acts of Congress relating to naturalization be. and the same are hereby. amended by striking out the word "white" wherever it occurs. so that in naturalization there shall be no distinction of race or color. I refused to be bound by the agreement if that amendment were voted on to the bill. I contended that it was another subject. and that we had not agreed to vote upon it.
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