Speech #670203200

PresidentI merely wish to assert it. and then I shall leave it for the present--that what we have done is to ratify the treaty and leave out the supplement to the treaty. and the importance of the supplement to the United States can not be overestimated. In fact. I am quite sure that if it had been understood and declared at the time we were ratifying this treaty that it should include domestic questions such as immigration and the tariff it never could have been ratified by this Chamber. Mr. President. I know that some contention was made by Senators. and that contention supports the theory I have been advancing. that no domestic questions affecting the United States could arise out of this treaty. because it was a treaty which dealt with the rights of the contracting parties in the Pacific and certain regions of the Pacific. In my judgment. there is no force in that argument. Undoubtedly. we have rights with reference to Japanese immigration in the Philippines and in Guam and in Hawaii. and these rights with reference to the immigration of Japanese to these island possessions of tile United States might have arisen in a form that would have involved Japan and the United States in serious difficulties. but that is a phase of the matter that I did not rise to discuss.