Those coming into the country thereafter will. of course. be without such certificates. and they can thus be easily detected. In the language of the report of the committee: The purpose of the bill is to secure a careful and accurate enumeration of the Chinese population of the United States in the Eleventh Census. and in connection with such enumeration to issue to each Chinese person a certificate which shall thereafter be evidence of the right of such Chinese person to be and remain in the United States. It further provides that after the enumeration shall have been completed any Chinese person found in the United States without such certificate shall be deemed to be unlawfully in the United States. and may be deported therefrom upon the judgment of a United States court in a proper proceeding for that purpose. The necessity for such an identification of the Chinese persons lawfully residing in the United States arises out of the fact that notwithstanding the legislation that has been had for the purpose of excluding Chinese immigration. such immigration continues to come into the United States clandestinely over the border from Canada and Mexico. and promises to continue unless effective measures are taken to guard the frontier or provision is made as contemplated by this bill for the identification of the Chinese people who are now here. so as to distinguish those who shall hereafter unlawfully come into the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury in his last report calls the attention of Congress to this subject in the following language:
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