I were to try to catechize the conferees as to what moved them. The results speak for themselves. and it is against the results that I direct my remrks. The figures supplied by the senior Senator from California [ir .TotrNsoI. so far as I am aware. are correct. 1mt even if the figures he suppliedl he incorrect. even if it be ascertained that only 240 instead of 240.000 Japanese would be admitted. under this conference report the vice of our Senate conferees would la) just as offensive. because it breaks down a principle to vliich we have ever adhered and which we have never surrendered. that is to say. the matter of determining who may and who may not: be admitted into the United States as in immigrant is simply. solely. and only t domestic. question to be reserved for the legislative branch. and there is no exception to this irule of government. Now. as the Senator from Arkansas said. we propose to select a yellow rne. an oriental power. and to single it out for special favors and privileges. as separate and apart from the treatment we accord to the white races. We require. and justly require.
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