Mr. Chairman? It is. as stated in its heading. to exclude Chinese coolies from the United States. Let us remember what we are legislating about--to exclude Chinese coolies from the United States. And every member of that committee is glad. and certainly I as much as any other member. am glad to do anything that will exclude Chinese laborers. Chinese coolies. from the United States. Of course. the merchant classes. the exempt classes. come in. Why are we in favor of that? Because. as we all know. the Chinese coolies coming into this country would be a dangerous element by reason of their competition with our own American labor. Well and good. But there is a provision in this bill. Mr. Chairman. which no more excludes Chinese coolies from the United States than it excludes them from Great Britain. not one bit. We struck it out because we thought it was a provision that would do no good. and that would do much harm. And though my friend from Missouri differs with me in that. I confess I am. still very strongly in accord with the views of the majority of the committee. First. I should say. gentlemen. that among the restrictions against the unlawful landing of Chinese we have in this bill a provision that when a ship comes alongside any wharf or dock of the United States on which are Chinese coolies who are not to be landed. the steamer must give bond in the penal sum of $2.000 for every Chinaman on board. to see to it that the Chinamen whom they have on board do not get on landthat the ship that brings them carries them away. So. certainly the provision is stringent enough to keep these ships having Chinamen on boardmen employed on the shipsfrom allowing them to land. If a ship has Chinamen on board who are to be landed. then there must be the certificates and the necessary papers to show that they are Chinamen who are entitled to land. but this proposition refers to ships having Chinamen on board who are not to land.