I have the greatest respect for the ministers of the gospel everywhere. and especially those of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their deliberate judgment upon a question on which they are fully informed would have considerable weight with me. But in this petition it is alleged that "the provision that the Chinese shall register and take out certificates to assure their continued residence here. producing the testimony of a white witness to their right to be here. requires of multitudes of them an impossibility. and yet subjects them to imprisonment and deportation if they fail to comply with the requisition." This shows how little the Geary act is understood. For registration in the first instance the testimony of a white witness is not required. For the purpose of showing that a Chinese laborer who had not complied with the law during the year in which he was allowed to register and failed to do so by reason of some excusable neglect the testimony of a white witness is not required.
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