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I undertake to say that in all the history of Senate could be obtained by submitting the treaty in completed governments which are even an approach to a democratic form form for its consideration without previous conference. the Selof government. there never.has.been such an exhibition of auto- ate has in such cases invariably insisted upon the right to the cratic power as that to which this body has submitted at the same freedom of action as it would have possessed had it been hands of the present Executive. consulted:at an earlier stage of the negotiations. President Johnson. followifig the footsteps of his immediate I shall not attempt to exhaust tie precedents upon this predecessors. on January 15. 1869. asked the advice of the Sen- subject. nor -would it serve any useful purpose to do so. It is ate concerning the proposed naturalization treaty with Great not to l)e expected that through a period of almost a century