I desire to read a line in this connection which will perhaps show why so many of the Republican leaders. the distinguished attorneys and counselors and advisers of the great Pacific Railroad. took so much interest in the Chinese question. In the report of the Joint Committee on Chinese Immigration. second session of the Fortyfourth Congress. it appears that they called before them among others Mr. Frank M. Pixley. representing the municipality of San Francisco. and on page 15 of the report Mr. Pixley said. among other things: The third interrogatorf is. "Do they come here voluntarily. and by what means do they get here?" After speaking of the Six Chinese Companies and the efforts they made. he said: The Central Pacific Railroad demanded ten thousand of these laborers. and this demand was greater than the marketafforded.
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