I would not vote to submit any question to the Court. of course. Now let me say to the Senator that there is something in which he is interested as well as am I. something that our friends from Oregon and our friends from Washington are interested in. They are interested in questions of immigration and questions of land tenure out in their sections. Ah. the time may come. if we go into this CourtI do not say that ultimately it will comewhen we will be asked to submit not alone the question of oriental immigration that affects us so vitally in the West. but we will be asked to submit as well the question of our agriculturalland protection there concerning which there has been so much dispute and controversy. No less an advocate of the Court than the late Senator Walsh of Montana himself long ago in the discussion conceded that very fact concerning immigration. The Chinese Exclusion Act had been in force for some timeI utilize that rather than the other illustration because there is no particular controversy about it at the momentand the late Senator Walsh in discussing the subject said in the Senateand Senators can find it in the If a Chinaman should contend that he was excluded from the United States. but that he was entitled to enter by provision of that treaty. it would be a matter of international concern and not a question of domestic concern. Any question of international concern of the character indicated the World Court would take cognizance of and have jurisdiction concerning. I would not submit what the State of California has done in relation to the Chinese question or the oriental question to any Court that sits across the sea.
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