Speech #570039624

The vast extent of our boundary line along the Canadian and Mexican borders. and the large profit to be made by the successful admission of the excluded classes. make it exceedingly difficult for our officers to exclude all who should be denied admission. It was made apparent to the committee that agencies are now established which undertake for a consideration of from $50 to $400 per capita to secure entrance into the United States of Chinese who are within the prohibitions of the law. These rich inducenients make it necessary. in order that the policy of the United States with respect to Chinese exclusion may be made effective. that the laws should be carefully framed and made to meet the requirements of the department charged with their enforcement. Some of the provisions of the bill may seem to be unduly drastic. yet they are such only as experience has suggested. They are such in the main as are now found necessary to enforce existing law and to prevent its evasion.