The Canadian and Pacific Railroad transports hundreds of Ctinese each year along our northern frontier. giving a bond to tathe Canadian government to carry them out of that dountry. which means into ours. The keenest opponents of this bill urge the reenactment of the present law. They do not seem to be aware that the validity of a large part of the laws and regulations governing Chinese exclusion is assailed in cases now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States. The question involved goes to the vital part of the existing law. An examination of the various Chineseexclusion laws disclose the fact that section 8 of the acts of September. 1888. is the law upon which the Secretary of the Treasury bases his right to make regulations governing the transit of Chinese laborers across our territory to another country.
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