For instance. on March 3. 1835. the Senate passed the following resolution: Resolved. That the President of the United States be respectfully requested to consider the expediency of opening negotiations with the governments of other nations. and particularly of the governments of Central America and New Grenada. for the purpose of effectually pro. tecting. by suitable treaty stipulations with them. such individuals or companies as may undertake to open a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by the construction of a ship canal across the isthmus which connects North and South America. and of securing forever. by such stipulations. the free and equal right of navigating such canal to all such nations. on the payment of such reasonable tolls as may be established. to compensate the capitalists who may engage in such undertaking and complete the work. On March 3. 1888. the Senate of the United States passed a resolution asking President Cleveland to open negotiations with China for the regulation of emigration from that country. and President Cleveland replied that such negotiations had been undertaken. So that so far as the parliamentary status of this resolution is concerned it is supported by the precedent both in the House and in the Senate without a break of nearly one hundred years. It is perfectly right and proper to instruct the President to open any negotiations which we conceive to be for the benefit of the American people.
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