President. answering the Senator from Colorado. there is no distinction between the effect of a subsequent treaty not in harmony with a previous treaty and that of a subsequent statute inconsistent with a previous statute. The latest expression of the legislative will always governs. and in the case of a treaty the latest treaty always governs. It is true the treaty of .1894 does not say that it is supplemental. but when a previous treaty said we might suspend or limit or regulate this immigration. and after a few years. [ will say. of experiment. we said "we have concluded that we want to absolutely prohibit." and we agreed to prohibit. I say the last is a substitute for the former. but the time of its life is prescribed in it. and the life of it is ten years. except only on the condition named. when it will be twenty years. That being true. let us inquire what difference it makes.
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