Let me explain to the Senator from New Hampshire. The treaty of 1880 provided that legislation might be had limiting immigration. No act was passed to enforce that provision until 1882. In 1882 an act was passed. It was then said to be untkir to exclude those who had left the country between the making of the treaty and the passage of the actabout two years. So the act provided that they might come in on proof of previous residence. It provided. also. for certificates for any of the rest who might go to China and wish to return. Now there is a stream of previofts residentsthousands of themthat have been coming in. and the courts have been overloaded by cases involving their identification.
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