The amnendment offered by the gentleman from North Carolina relates to the tariff laws generally between the United States and all countries. It introduces a very different and much broader proposition. The -Chair thinks it necessary to refer to but one ruling in the Fiftyeighth Congress. where an amendment limiting immigration generally was.held not to be germane to a proposition to prevent the immigration of Chinese alone. Here is a bill relating to the Philippines and an amendment relating to the tariff generally. The ruling to which the Chair refers was made by the present AttorneyGeneral of the United States.
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