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![handle is hein.immigration/cheselus0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Calendar No., 758.
57TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REP'T 77(.
1st &von. 'Part 1.
CHINESE EXCLUSION.
MARCH 17, 1902.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. PENROSE, from the Committee on Immigration, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 2960.]
The Committee on Immigration herewith report Senate bill No.
2960, with sundry amendments, as indicated, an respectfully recom-
mend its passage.
The sentiment of the American people with regard to the admission
of Chinese has been crystallized during the past twenty years into a
definite and progressive policy, which has resulted in equally pro-
gressive legislation for the exclusion of all classes save those who, in
recognition of international comity, should be admitted as official rep-
resentatives of the Chinese Government, as teachers coming to
instruct the Chinese youth or to enlighten American collegians, as
students seeking the benefits of the higher educational facilities of
this country, as merchants engaging in legitimate commerce, both
local and international, and as travelers for curiosity or pleasure.
These classes are excepted from the operation of the present exclu-
sion laws by virtue of the treaty with China, and such exemptions,
which were made at the request of the representatives of the Imperial
Chinese Government, include all of the classes to whom admission was
conceded by the United States in the negotiations leading up to said
treaty.
Upon the other hand the absolute prohibition of the admission of
Chinese laborers was agreed upon by China, and the treaty runs for a
period of twenty years ending December 8. 1914, subject to possible
abrogation, however, at the end of ten years, in 1904.
The act approved May 5, 1892, known as the Geary law, continued
in force all laws then existing for a period of ten years, or~until May
5, 1902, or less than two months hence.
Under the a'tininiutation of the extsiby, la vs many of the evil
results of the prc-as un1rct: ced immigranoa of Chinese have been
nullified, and under their prot-ct'on American labor has regained
much that was lost by fcrmiet mpetition of Chinese cheap labor.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.immigration/cheselus0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)