Speech #470031722

So that in any event. no matter which view of this case you take. it is apparent to my mind that there should be a different period of limitation prescribed as to the time when this act shall go into operation. and I shall move. asl have said. that this act. if adopted. shall be communicated to the Government of China as the treaty provides. and that the period within which it shall be unlawful for Chinese immigrants to land here shall be changed so as to prevent there from sailing within a certain specified time after the Chinese Government has been advised of our action. There is also in the last section of the bill a provision that appears to me very inaccurate and uncertain and that requires either modification or specification. I read. commencing in line 10. section 14: And any Chinese unlawfully entering within the United States. or who shall have unlawfully entered the United States in any way. either by land or by water. shall be removed therefrom by the collector of customs of any collection district in which such Chinese may be found. at the cost of the United States. under such regulations as the Secrctary of the Treasury may prescribe. "Removed therefrom." and where to? The collector of customs of the collection district is authorized to remove at the expense of the United States these unlawful immigrants from that district. but where are they to be removed to ? I presume that the intention of the committee wias that they should be returned to China. because it wouhl be obviouslyanjust to remove these obnoxious immigrants. so declared by statute. from one collection district of the United States into another that might not want to receive them. They would still be exactly as open to the penalties of this bill in an adjacent collection district as in the one in which they had landed. Therefore. there must be some amendment here.