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will stop in the various oriental countries that intervene between 

 Passamaquoddy Bay and Newfoundland and will collect great 

 hordes of Mongols and, to use his own words, will inundate the 

 waters of Newfoundland with them. He fears that we will make 

 of the treaty waters "multitudinous seas incarnadine" with China- 

 men. Perhaps his view is that these fishing ships, these Httle bits 

 of fifty or sixty, or one-hundred-ton boats may sail away ten 

 thousand miles to the other side of the globe and collect Asiatics to 

 come and fish on the coast of Newfoundland. 



I cannot really think he was serious about it, but sometimes, 

 particularly when treating of Far-Eastern matters, we are apt to 

 fail to appreciate the true effect of what may be said. Yet I prefer 

 to believe that my learned friend, who has a very pretty wit, was 

 really playing with us a Httle about the danger of inundation by 

 Orientals, particularly in view of the fact that he contended that it 

 was all right for the Newfoundlanders to employ them themselves 

 ^no objection to that seems to exist. They may be allowed to 

 come ashore and enter into the life of the country and mingle with 

 the people of the country, but, when there is a possibility of our 

 bringing some unfortunate Chinese laundryman there on a- fishing 

 vessel, we are to be regarded as making a sort of gurry ground of the 

 coastal waters for the disposal of Mongols. 



There is only one further subject regarding Question 2 that I 

 care to speak of: 



Something was said about the presentation of a certificate by 

 anybody coming there to exercise this right, sajdng he is an inhab- 

 itant of the United States. That occurred during the course of the 

 discussion by Mr. Elder upon the kind of papers which a vessel 

 should produce. 



I merely wish to guard against its being taken to apply to indi- 

 viduals, as distinct from people coming upon vessels, and exhibiting 

 the documents of the vessels. 



Of course when any right, any general right is granted to a 

 country to have its subjects or citizens or inhabitants have rights 

 or privileges in another country, the presiunption always is that 

 any of the class specified as the class for the benefit for which the 

 right is granted are entitled to exercise it. If there is to be a pro- 

 hibition or limitation, why that must be stated, and in the absence 



