A large number of these people are citizens of foreign countries. The fact that those people have been denied the privilege of free travel and free passage from one State to another State raises a situation which may at any moment become an International question. and with respect to which a foreign country can deal only with the United States. No suggestion here of information upon which to base tariff or immigration laws. At that point I interposed the inquiry. which any Senator can find by following the debate. and the whole question turned on that. It was not only the resolution itself. which embodies no matter not now provided for by law except the inquiry whether Massachusetts was performing her duty. but it was the statement of the author of the resolution in the very first paragraph presenting his argument to the Senate which attracted my attention. and convinces me that the important part of the resolution is the last clause.
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