We have had communications from the Chinese Government on this subject a good.many times. showing its wishes and whether this bill would be a wanton wrong or in line with its oftenexpressed wish. I will read a sentence that was in that very treaty of 1894. which is a fair expression of the sentiment then and now of the Chinese Government. and which amply justifies us now in trying to carry out by this bill the wish there expressed. At the opening of that treaty is this declarationThe Government of China. in view of the antagonism and muchdeprecated and serious disorders to which the present Chinese laborers has given rise in certain parts of the United States. desires to prohibit the emigration of such laborers from China to the United States. Whatever may be the discrepancy between the language of this amendment and what some gentlemen will conceive are existing treaty obligations. it is plain that this bill is earnestly. sincerely. and. I believe. efficiently framed to carry out that expression of the desire of the Chinese Government.
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