have any scruples about becoming citizens, the politicians who need

their votes will soon change their opinions. Article 6 does not confer

citizenship upon Chinamen--we have other laws which regulate that

matter. It simply gives them the privileges and immunities pertaining to

"residence," in the same degree as they are enjoyed by the "subjects

of the most favored nation." One of the chief privileges pertaining

to "residence" among us is that of taking the oath and becoming full

citizens after that residence has been extended to the legal and

customary period. Mr. Cushing says the Chinamen had a right to become

citizens before Article 6 was framed. They certainly have it now.

Prominent senators refused to touch the treaty or have anything to

do with it unless it threw the doors of citizenship open as freely to

Chinamen as to other foreigners. The entire Senate knew the broadest

meaning of Article 6--and voted for it. The closing sentence of it

was added to please a certain Senator, and then he was satisfied and

supported the treaty with all his might. It was a gratification to him

to have that sentence added; and inasmuch as the sentence could do

no harm, since it don't mean anything whatever under the sun, it was

gratefully and cheerfully added. It could not have been added to please

a worthier man. It sets off the treaty, too, because it is so gracefully

worded and is so essentially and particularly ornamental. It embellishes

and supports the grand edifice of the Chinese treaty, even as a wealth

of stucco embellishes and supports a stately temple. It would hardly be

worth while for a treaty to confer naturalization in the last clause

of an article wherein it had already provided for the acquirement

of naturalization by the proper and usual course. The idea of making

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