San Francisco is eighteen days from Chinaby steamer. making twentythree days as the time iin which Chinese can reach those States. and the States of Texas and Louisiana could be filled with a Chinese population in less than three years and give a majority of Chinese in the population of those States. if they are permitted to come here in unlimited numbers. To show the shrewdness of the Chinamen. since the ratification of the treaty entered into between the Chinese Government and our own Government. they are continuously seseding more Chinasun to this country than they had done during the same length of time for the previous six or eight years. I know it to be a fact. according to the statistics. that since the ratification of the treaty by the Chinese Government (I do not say the government itself as a government is the cause of such a large increase of immigration of the Chinese) their People have come to this country. to the coast of California. to the city of Sat Francisco. in larger numbers than they had been in the habit of coining here before for years and years. Wby ? Because. under the provisions of the treaty entered into in 1881. the Chinansen who may be it this country at the time that any legislative action maybe had in reference to the prohibition of their fmther immigration will not be affected by the provisions of the treaty or the aw that we may pass upon the subject. The Chinamen. knowing that fact. the steamers bring six to eight hundred every month. The clamor today on the Pacific coast is of such a character that my colleague and myself have come to the conclusion that we must do something. and that imnediately. or else it will perhaps be too late to get the relief we expect to get by reason of the passage of this bill.
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The Chinese are described as shrewd and taking advantage of treaties to immigrate in large numbers.