Speech #590163142

President. for legislation of this character and upon a great subject like this is that it bridges over a troublesome time. that it will make easy negotiations which will accomplish the aims of the western people. and that there is a fair promise that the President will be untiring and unceasing in his efforts to secure by treaty the kind of exclusion that is needed. and if the President should be unable to secure that character of exclusion. then that Congress will not fail to come up to the full measure of its duty to the working people of the country. Mr. President. upon the theory that this legislation is tentative or experimental in its character. upon the theory that the Executive and Congress are confronted with a crisis that demands palliation at the present time. upon the theory that this will tend measurably even to satisfy the dissatisfied elements of the western part of the country. and further. upon the theory that either the President or Congress or both will be prompt and earnest and energetic in securing the only kind of legislation that will satisfy the section of the country which is so deeply interested in the class: of immigration that reaches our western shores. I shall support this measure. The East is not disturbed.