President. I desire to call the attention of the Senator from Connecticut to the fact that although at the time of the census of 1890 there were foufid to be in this country 106.000 Chinamen. I believe. and although we had then an exclusion act. and although it was unlawful from that time forward. as it had been for some time prior theieto. for Chinamen to come into the country. when we came to register them we found that therehad beenno diminution apparently of the Chinese population. There had been a considerable exodus. and there had been several thousand deaths that we knew of. This fact merely demonstrates that a large number of Chinese laborers came into this country unlawfully. and yet we had inspectors at that time.
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