Now. that being so. we can not instruct him to change these treaties. but it is the law. as I understand. that a treaty made and ratified will invalidate or repeal a prior statute. and having no authority to direct the President in his power to deal with one of two things. one of which is treaties and the other of which is statutes. we are telling hini to bring these two conflicting things together. Our effort to give any direction is only an effort to authorize him to bend tile statutes to tit treaties which we have no power to direct him in making. Title 3. sections 301. 302. 303. and 304. provide that as nearly as practicable onehalf of the total number of immigrants admitted to the United States in any fiscal year shall betransported in vessels registered or enrolled and licensed under "the laws of the United States. Subsequent paragraphs of title 3 plainly recognize the fact that this is violative of our treaties with many foreign powers. This fact is admitted by the gentleman from Pennsylvania . as shown by the following. taken from colunl 1. page 92. of the CONGRESSTONAL RECORD of November 23:
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