It puts too great a power in the hands of a single officerthu Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. I would have preferred to see a question so grave as this more determinately settled by the words of the treaty. or in accord with its provisions. by specific and detailed enactment of law. No man should have such discretion in his hands. no matter how high his station. as to be able. even by neglect or mistake. to let loose the floodgate of this Chinese immigration. Unlike the circumstances in 1884. when we last discussed this question here. when there were few Chinamen coming into this country. there is now a great stream pouring in. more than a thousand every month. nearer fifteen hundred sometimes. The indefinite number who slip in illegally at the ports can not be ascertained. nor those who succeed in making their contraband way through the mountains upon the northern border.
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