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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset36307 and id is 1 raw text is: 57TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 1st Session. No. 304. EXCLUSION OF CHINESE LABORERS. Mr. PENROSE presented the following MEMORANDUM INDICATING SOME OF THE OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS PROPOSED IN THE MATTER OF SENATE BILL 2960, THE PACIFIC COAST BILL FOR EXCLUSION OF CHINESE LABORERS. APRIL 14, 1902.-Submitted and ordered to be printed. MEMORANDUM INDICATING SOME OF THE OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS PROPOSED IN THE MATTER OF SENATE BILL 2960, THE PACIFIC COAST BILL FOR EXCLUSION OF CHINESE LABORERS. SECTION 2. Mr. Dillingham's amendment strikes out words prohibiting immigra- tion to our mainland of Chinese laborers who were in our insular ter- ritory when the same was acquired by the United States. It substitutes words restricting (under rules of statutory construction) the pro- hibition to Chinese laborers who have entered the islands since they became ours. When Hawaii was acquired the group had a large Chinese popula- tion, so large that Congress deemed it prudent to forbid Hawaiian Chinese to migrate to our mainland. The amendment would enable the Hawaiian Chinese of that time to enter our mainland, for it would operate as a repeal of the existing prohibition. When the Philippines were acquired they had a large Chinese popu- lation. Governor Taft said in his recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Immigration that at present there are between 150,000 and 250,000 Chinese of the full blood in the Philippines and a great number of Chinese of the mixed blood. At the time of acquisition of the archipelago there were among the inhabitants more than 1,000,000 persons who were Chinese or of Chinese descent. The amendment would enable this immense population to pour itself into Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the United States proper. Who, save heedless and unscru- pulously selfish capitalists, desires a calamity like that? Moreover, Chinese duplicity is such that if any Chinaman who was in Hawaii or the Philippines at the time of acquisition may freely enter our mainland territory, we will find it in practice virtually impoSi1le to disprove false repry,ept.a.tins pf .tiype,f eon to the VoTIlATED INF9JO EVol 22-1.

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