There is also another strong and convincing reason for the passage of this bill which concerns the United States. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows that 13.242 Chinese persons registered and obtained certificates of residence under the act of May 5. 1892. leaving 93.445 who failed to avail themselves of the privileges of said act. Agsiming thatabout 10 per cent of these will be entitled to exemption as teachers. students. merchants. and persons traveling for curiosity. there would remain about 85.000 that would be liable to deportation under the law. The Secretary of the Treasury says that he has but $25.000 available of the fund for enforcing the deportation act of 1892. that the lowest cost for the transportation of Chinese from San I Fraficisco to Hongkong is $51 per capita for steerage passage and thatother expenses incident to the arrest. tr.ial. and inland transportatien would average not less than $35 more per capita. If. therefore. all Chinese persons within the United States who are required to register under the law and have failed to do so should be transported to China. the cost involved would amount to $7.310.000. lt will therefore not only be fair and just to Chinese persons. but wise economy to pass the pending bill and save milons of dollars for the United States.
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