Speech #530010598

I amin favor of the resolution. As is known. I have introduced a bill appropriating half a million dollars for the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion acts. which has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations andwill be considered very soon. It transpired the other day in debate that $23.000 of the appropriation made for the last fiscal year was not expended and therefore it went back into the Treasury. I observe in this mornings dispatches that Judge Ross. of the southern district of California. has made an order for the deportation of a Chinese laborer who was in this country before the passage of the registration act and who failed to register and made no showing as to why he did not register. Although it is stated that the AttorneyGeneral notified the district attorney that the money which had been appropriated was needed for other purposes and could not be expended for the deportation of Chinese who have not registered. Judge Ross holds that the AttorneyGeneral can not divide the fund and can not designate whether the fund shall be expended for this or that purpose which is in execution of the law. This emphasizeswhat I said the other day. that this is a question which must be taken.up and considered by Congress and can not be trifled with. I see the. dispatehes also state that immediately after the decision of. Judge Ross. in a case evidently not brought by the. Government. but brought by outside parties. a hundred applications were made to have Chinese deported who had not certificates. So the law is about to be executed in some wayin southern California. and I presume in other districts in the country. and it will be necessary for the Administration to determine what course shall be pursued in regard to the execution of. the law.