Speech #580004334

It was the equivalent of the expression of a conviction by the Republican House of Representatives. if not of the Republican members of the Senate. that there should be no lowering of the wall of protection around the sugar producers of this country. however slight. unless there was an absolute certainty that a law would be enacted by Cuba to prevent the introduction of the cheap labor that would enable the Cuban sugar to so undersell American sugar as to arrest the development of the great new American industry. Mr. President. what interests intervened to induce the President to omit these provisions for Chinese exclusion from this treaty? The Senator from Texas correctly expressed the situation in his remarkably clear and forceful and lucid speech yesterday. The action of the President in taking this whole question of change in our tariff laws from Congress. where it properly belonged. and while the House bill was yet being considered by the proper Senate committee and covering the same identical things as were in the bill by treaty with Cuba. was an insult to the House of Representatives. to which body is given the sole power to originate revenue measures.