I think I may say that members of the committee who are engaged in trying to perfect and pass suitable legislation are no more disposed to be inhuman or unreasonable than other Senators who have been discussing this case. It is accepted as the policy of the United States that the coming of Chinese laborers into this country is to be prohibited. itis admitted by China in a treaty. where she pledges us her cooperation to that end. What we have before us. therefore. to determine is neither a principle nor a policy. but a pure question of legislative detail. At the beginning of this session I introduced a bill extending the existing laws for Chinese exclusion. I then thought that was all that it was necessary to do. I took up the question in committee.
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