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If it be asserted at all that what is asked by us Is in conflict with the treaty that has been entered into of 1911. I call attenition to pages 2 to 6 of the House committee report. deinonstrating conclusively that the langunage employed is Ianguage which has been suggested to avoid the very idea of conflict with the treaty. and that it makes the particular amendment col form entirely to our treaty. Upon every consideration we insist. thereforeconsiderations that you may assert to be loca in character. but which I deny. because the question is broader than that. considerations of carrying omit the definite policy concerning naturalization . considerations of carrying out as well the policy we have adopted with every other nation concerning immigration. nbove and beyond that. the consideration of having the prerogative that exists iii the Cdngress of the United States exerelsei in the place where it ought to be exercised. the Congress of the United Stttes--tht amendment ought. to be adopted. Mr. rEEl) of Pennsylvania. Mr. President. I do not wish to make a speech on this subject. but I should like to call to the attention of the Senate a letter written yesterday by the Secretary of State. and printed In the RgcotCn at page 5882 of the proceedhigs in the House of Representatives in their discussion of an immigration bill yesterday. I want to quote two sentences of it. Secretary Hughes says: From the report of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization It appears that there Is a mnisunderstanding respecting the working of the socalled gentlemens agreement with Japan. It Is stated in this report that the Japanese Government is given the right under this agreement to determine who shall come to the United States. The proposal that I have recommendedI might say. parenthetcally. that he recommended that Japan be treated as other nations. and placed under the quota law. The propo.4al that I have recommended provides for a double control of Immigration from Japan. It contemplates the continuation of the gentlemens agreement whereby we have the cooperation of lthe Japanose Government in excluding laborers. It also provides for the check on immigration from Japan by means of the tuota restriction. On account of or long frontier lines. I am of the opinion that such a double control would lie more effective to prevent th. entry of undesirable aliens than an exclusion provision resulting in the loss of tihe cooperation of the Japanese Government.