At that time it was a question. The members of the Committee on Immigration well remember that there were those who contended that the denunciation of the treaty of 1894 would revive the treaty of 1880. and those who contended that the treaty of 1894 so completely superseded the first section of the treaty of 1880 that the ending of one could not revive the other. But. Mr. President. my later reflection has led me to favor the first proposition. The treaty of 1894 was in the nature of a ratification of the legislation of 1882. the treaty of 1894 did not authorize thelUnited States to do anything. It simply declared that from and after its ratification the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States should be absolutely prohibited for ten years. There is.no necessary conflict between the two treaties. The one was a treaty unlimited as to time. the other a treaty that expired by its own terms in twenty years. and might expire by the act of China at the end of ten years. Under the treaty of 1880 the United States might suspend or limit immigration. By the 1894 treaty China itself prohibited immigration. Had the United States modified its prohibitive legislation after the treaty of 1894. it would have pleased China and would not have interfered with any obligation assumed by the United States in the treaty. Therefore the 1894 treaty. so far as any obligation of the Unitef States was concerned. was not even suspended.
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