Speech #570044354

I have reached the same conclusion as that announced by the Senator from Washington. I am not prepared to say. reading the treaty of 1880 and the treaty of 1894. that the latter treaty left all classes of Chinamen except laborers entitled to come into the United States. If they had omitted Article III altogether and had lhnited this treaty of 1894 to the prohibition of the immigration of Chinese laborers. there would have been force in the contention of the Senator from Ohio. They did not do that. The fact that they revised that subjectmatter forces us to find the law as to the excepted classes in this revised article upon that subject. ~1~ The provisions of this convention shall not affect the right at present enjoyed of Chinese subjects. being officials. teachers. students. merchants. or travelers for curiosity or pleasure. but not laborers. of coming to the United States and residing therein.