China. Japan. or any other country can not be refused. and therefore the list of questions which may arise is rot confined to the list of questions which may arise between this country and Great Britain or this country and France. but we have to consider questions which are likely to arise between this country and any other country. and we have to consider .what would be our attitude if such questions were presented. Take some of the questions which the Senator from Massachusetts enumerated. for instance. the question of immigration. one of the most important questions with which this country has to deal. a question absolutely vital to some sections of the country. especially to the States of the Pacific coast. The citizens of those States could not exist in the absence of the restriction of Asiatic immigration. they would soon cease to be the possessors of that soil. and that would soon be a section in which no white man could live. except as the few live who go over to China and Japan for the purpose of prosecuting certain industries. If. Mr. Presidentwhich is not unlikely at all. for we know the difficulties we have had in connection with the immigration question so far as our western coast is concernedif China or Japan should be a party to a treaty like this. and should then demand of us that the question of immigration. and the general admission of their people. be submitted to arbitration because of a difference between us in regard to it. and that question was presented to the Senate in a proposed treaty with China or Japan. would not the question whether we would submit it to arbitration be the main question for our consideration? If it would be the main question and an essential question. then in such a proposed treaty could the Senate. under the Constitution. leave it to an outside commission to determine for the Senate and against its will that that question should be submitted to arbitration? I am not going to omit.
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