All ordinary business. public and private. of the court is necessarily suspended. or if resumed. these passengers. muany of whom may be entitled to their discharge. are left either incarcerated or ont bail without the determiunation of their cases. It is impossible for the courts if the Chinese continue to arrive in such large nonbers as heretofore. to attend to those cases and discharge the ordinary current business of tite courts. It will be seen this decision was rendered at the time when. according to the gentleman from Massachusetts. immigration had practically stopped. Sir. the position assumed by the opponents of this bill is not tenable. The expressed intention of the net of 1882 was to suspend the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years. We bave shown that the act is defective. that they still continue to come in violation of law. It is no answer to the proof of this defect to say that the numher of arrivals has greatly diminished.
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