Mr. Speaker. the original request of the Secretary of State that Congress waive its right to settle the Japanese immigration question and authorize tie Secretary of State to adjust the matter by treaty had some merit. That suggestion at least had the merit of furnishing substantial grounds for mollifying the feeling of Japan. If the United States committed itself to a Japanese immigration policy by a plan which could be established only with the consent of Japan. no doubt it would temporarily appease that country. A plan even so unworthy of an American Congress would at least have the poor merit of temporarily appeasing that nation. to whom we would have assigned a function of the American Congress. But the plan now before us is devoid of even the poor merit of the plan first suggested.
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