I will complete the statement I was making about this immigration before I reply to the suggestion of the Senator from Nevada. These people come in here and are put in the penitentiary under our laws for a year or less for violating our immigration laws. They stay there until they get through with their little term of service. are well fed add all that. and we turn them out. and then what are we to do with them? The statute says they shall be returned to the country from whence they came. That is construed. I think. rather narrowly myself. but it is construed by the judicial and other officers of the country out there as meaning the British possessions when they come through the British possessions. so that when we go back with the Chinaman. our Chinese exconvict. we go back to the British line with him. and they charge us $50 headmoney for getting him in again.
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