So far as the statement as to the amount of moneys appropriated and the amount of moneys expended is concerned. that information is already in the Treasury Department and it will require no time or trouble whatever to communicate it. In regard to the opinion called for as to the amount of money which will be required to execute the law for the present fiscal year. that is a matter which in any event must b a mere guess. a mere estimate. and it is a matter which the AttorneyGeneral can better estimate than the Secretary of the Treasury. As I stated the other day. the rapidity with which the law of May 5. 1892. can be executed will depend upon the ability of the courts which have jurisdiction of litigation arising under the act to dispose of other necessary business. which. of course. must be disposed of. and in addition to dispose of cases brought before them for the deportation of Chinese. It can be said if 100.000 Chinese laborers or 50.000 Chinese laborers are to be deported in a year it will take so much money to do it: but that is an impracticable thing. The Chinese can not be deported until there is a judgment of the courts that they shall be deported and provision is made for their deportation. Consequently. the actual amount necessary to expend for the purpose of enforcing the law as rapidly as the courts can dispose of the cases is not necessarily large. But in any event it is a mere guess.
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