Because the bill has been running along all the time with the thought that it would be passed much earlier than now. and with the idea that the exclusion would be established on July 1. and that there would be tiroe for the President and the Secretary of State to properly tell the .Tapanese Government in oflicial letters that the Congress of the United States had willed that whatever is the agreement. whatever it may pretend to be. is by the will of Congress. over. Also. because our committee did not care to recognize by words in this act treaties or agreements relating to immigration. which we did do in the quota act. There is nothing here now that calls for a treaty. nothing whatever. and if this bill became the law tomorrow and was signed by the President tomorrow. what is there to prevent the President and the Secretary of State. if they so will. to begin the negotiation of a reaty? They would not. of course. but what is there to prevent. or what can there be in an act of Congress?
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