It is not to interfere with the coming of a genuine merchant. or a genuine traveler. or a genuine teacher. or a genuine student. The purpose is to enable us to distinguish those persons from the Chinese laborers. whose coming it is designed to prohibit. Anyone who has followed the testimony as the committee has followed it. anyone who has looked into this subject with the aid of the officers of the Treasury who have been called upon to enforce the laws. must have become convinced. as I have become convinced. that there is a constant and unceasing attempt to bring into this country as merchants or teachers or students or travelers members of the prohibited class of laborers or coolies. It is to prevent that fraud that the clauses in the bill exist. If it can be shown that those clauses in any way violate the treaty. in any way tend to keep out a genuine merchant. traveler. teacher. or student. then they ought to be modified. and I should be the first to vote for such modification.