they were not intended as any personal reflection upon his character. Gentlemen have a right to represent any interest they desire to represent upon this floor. They have a right to take any position which they want to take upon this floor. and I maintain. sir. that the positions taken by theln and argued and presented to this House are subjects of criticism and subjects of argument as much as others presented in the language which I used yesterday. It was only presented. sirs. as argument upon my part to show that the gentleman was interested or that he was not in full favor with the idea of restrictive immigration as his committee had presented it and as his committee had reported it. It was simply what I understood to be a legal argument. a fair and a just argument. which I had a right to make upon this floor in answer to the one which he had thrust upon me. to show his purpose in doing so.
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