The power to regulate transit does not include the power to prohibit it. It is therefore claimed that a Chinese laborer coming to any of our ports of entry. with a passport and a ticket for his passage across our territory. can not be refused admission. though his purpose be to go just across our border and return to us within a few hours. It is said that if Congress extends the exclusion act beyond the expiration of our treaty with China it will seriously affect our commercial relations with that nation. Have no fear. this prediction is unfounded. This objection was urged at the time the Geary Act was before Congress.
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