I exonerate the Chinese Government. I do not think they have any knowledge of this business. But our Immigration Bureau. by a system of rigorous investigations and examinations. eventually broke up the scheme of evasion by the socalled natives. and consequently new schemes were resorted to in order to circumvent the laws. The loopholes offered through the channels of existing law and regulations. so far as officials. teachers. students. and persons traveling for curiosity or pleasure are concerned. were soon closed up. but not before an effort had been made by interested parties to smuggle laborers into the country under the guise of each one of these privileged classes. The result of these efforts to circumvent the law was the promulgation by the Treasury Department of regulations defining in clear and unmistakable terms the status of these privileged classes.
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