The provisions contained in this legislation are to be incorporated into an executive agreement to be entered into by the President of the United States with the President of the Republic of the Philippines. It should be borne in mind. however. that this measure which we are now enacting. provides very definitely and specifically what shall be contained in that agreement. With the exception of negotiating in reference to the immigration of American citizens into the Philippine Islands. nothing is left for negotiation between the Presidents of the two republics. This legislation provides what the terms of the agreement shall be. The concessions made on the part of the United States immediately become the law of the land upon the enactment of this measure.
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