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Oh. yes. there was a reference for adjustment to the council. and in this case there is a reference to representatives of the four powers. interested. That is the essential difference between the two. but the point is that tie Senator fron Massachusetts insisted that some power other than the United States represented upon the council of the League of Nations would insist. for instance. that the subject of immigration was not a domestic question. but was an international question. and that therefore the subject of immigration from the oriental countries to this country might become a matter for adjudication before the council. It was stoutly contended that it had been determined over and over again by the Supreme Court of the United States. the opinion having been produced here in the course of the debate. that such a question was domestic in its character and was not an international question. as well is that it had been treated as a domestic question in practically all international confer-