So at last the poor tramps would go out and rub their hands industriously on the brickbats and make corns on them and come in and undertake to deceive the judge that way. There is a provision in here that the Chinese shall be allowed to bring with him his minor children. and it is absolutely true that one Chinaman 40 years old tried to get into San Francisco as the minor child of another Chinaman. I heard a distinguished member of the committee tell this tale: The Canadian Pacific Railway has always tried to sneak these coolies over our border. and they let them get off the train about three miles and a half the other side of the border. and then they would send them through the bushes. and then they would take them on just this side of the border. They would haul them sometimes in wagons. and one night they undertook to haul five of them through concealed in a great big music box. Generally they went through like Old Nick was after them and never stopped anywhere. but that night the driver got thirsty and lie stopped at a town to get him a drink. and the Chinese in the music box. thinking he had arrived at the destination. and as the consul was watching. out popped five Chinese ghosts from the music box.