If the treaty is. then the treaty prevails. and if the statute is. then the statute prevails. I now ask attention to the act of 1902. but I will refer to the different steps ta. en by Congress. and particularly by the Senate. before agitation culminated in that law. The act of 1882 simply suspended and limited Chinese immigration for a period of ten years. Therefore in 1892 the act of 1882 was reenacted and extended for another period of ten years. That latter period would expire in the month of May. 1902. So it became necessary. if exclusion laws were to continue. that Congress should again move before the act of 1892 expired by limitation. In 1902 there were extended hearings before the Senate Committee on Immigration. Those who. favored the most extreme prohibition of Chinese immigration were before the committee. those who opposed exclusion of any kind. and those who desired to modify the existing exclusion laws. were also before the committee. Learned and impassioned addresses were delivered before the committee by distinguished menmen representing the labor interests of the United States. and men representing the capitalistic interests. The outcome of these deliberations was that. through the chairman of the Committee on Immigration. the senior Senator from Pennsylvania . a bill was reported to the Senate that should have received the sanction of this body. After long debate. however. and after many delays. a substitute for the bill reported from the committee was offered by the Senator from Connecticut . and that substi. tute. with some slight modification. was adopted. The bill reported from the committee codified all existing laws and regulations found in the statutes and all necessary regulations which had been issued by the Treasury Department.
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