I should feel recreant to the oath I took at that stand. I should feel unworthy of the imperial State whose commission I bear on this floor. if I did not stand in my manhood against any such thing as that. The President of the United States In vetoing the immigration bill used this expression in withholding his approval. as I said a moment ago. from a measure on which almost twothirds .of his legislative colleagues in the Democratic Party dissent from him. He used these words: But candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution In matters of legislation leave me no choice but to dissent. The President is right. everlastingly right. although I disagree with him fundamentally on that particular question.
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