I know that he contradicts this statement. but I affirm in the presence of this House that this report is the only authentic. reliable information upon the subject which has yet come to our knowledge. and it comes from a careful. faithful. industrious. honest official appointed by the Treasury Department. During the time that this last act has been in operation the Chinese labor population on the Pacific coast has been reduced 21.000reduced so much that there is already complaint on the part of the employers of labor in California that their industries are suffering on account of this sudden reduction of their labor force. It is not. then. a question of restricting Chinese immigration. This has always been restrictedrestricted to this great extent that there has been a reduction of onefourth of the Chinese population within the three years during which the act has been in operation. So much for that.
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