The same privilege has been extended for a hundred years past. There is nothing new whatever in this provision of the bill. The same exception existed under the quota law of 1921. The same exception has always been recognized in the Chinese exclusion law and the Chinese exclusion treaty. and it never occurred to anybody. except the Washington Post of this morning. to consider it a joker. It is a mere recognition of the trade privileges which they give us and we give them. and we actually went so far in this new immigration law as to require for the first time that those persons might be compelled to give bond to insure their departure when their treaty business was finished. something that has never been done before in the history of this country.
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