President. I have many reasons which impel me to give my most hearty support to this bill. as well as to the amendment proposed by the Senator from Oregon and to the amend ment offered by the Senator from California. 1 shall mention now only two. I shall give it my support. first. because the white people of the States mostly affccteqd by Chinese immigration with almost entire unanimity desire its passage. For the present. at least. the evil and wrong intended to be remedied by the bill are in the main local. spending their greatest force on the Pacilic States. These States complain. and I think they complain justly. of the effects of Chinese immigration upon their welfare and prosperity. These complaints are real. based on actual grievances of a most serious character. They do not have their origin in meore sentiment and theory. they are not mere apprehensions of injury to come hereafter. but they set forth wrongs now being felt. evils now being endured.
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