Commencing with the treaty of the 17th of November. 1880. where provision was made that Congress might provide for the exclusion of Chinamen. following with the act of the 6th of May. 1882. the act of July 5. 1884. and concluding with the act of the 1st of October. 188. there has been one purpose in view. Congress has been seeking to execute the will of the people of the United States. to exclude Chinese laborers from this country. For a time each act in turn had been deemed effective. but the immigration has continued in spite of legislation forbidding it. The act of October 1. 1888. commonly known as the Scott exclusion act. was supposed to be particularly direct. positive. and effective in its terms of exclusion. But. while this lastnamed act provided that Chinese laborers who had departed from the United States should not be permitted to return. there was nothing in that act which really executed the purpose of the law. It provided no machinery ir guarding the frontier. and as a consequence it did not take long for the Chinaman to discover more than one road of ingress across the border.
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