Mr. President. I mu entirely in sympathy with the object and purpose of the bill. I am familiar with the circumstances attending the smuggling of opium and the bringing of Chinese into the United States in violation of the exclusion act. It has been a scandal on Puget Sound for many years that there has been conducted the manufacture or refinement of opium. There are many factories going there day and night. and it seems impossible to repress this smuggling unless we have some facilities connected with the revenue service to prevent the carrying on of this nefarious business. The collector of the port at Puget Sound has written me a letter recently in which he says that he finds himself utterly unable to intercept the smugglers who are bringing over opium and the Chinese.
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