I think it was a weele. at leastand the Senator from Vermont will correct me if I am wrongthat the Senate conferees struggled with the conferees of the House to retain the language which we had adopted in the bill as it had passed the Senate. but the conferees of the House. assisted by the opponents of Chinese immigration. insisted upon the language which we finally adopted. and we had to surrender. M r. PATTERSON. It is almost impossible for me to realize that the friends of Chinese exclusion would have insisted upon the changes that were made in the Senators own measure and that are incorporated in the act as it now is. Of course. I do not know what occurred in the committee. but I do know that within twentyfour hours after the law became effective the opponents of Chinese immigration insisted that the act would become wholly ineffective should China denounce the treaty of 1894. And I also know that by reason of that discovery the then Senator from Washington. Mr.
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