Speech #570039638

But it is perfectly clear under that treaty. whereby China proposes to cooperate with us in prohibiting the introduction of laborers. that the only way in which we can carry out the intent of the treaty. to go no further. is to be enabled by proper tests to distinguish between those who are entitled to come in and those who are not. I say here on the strength of the testimony which I have heard and read that there is no difficulty in any genuine member of those classes coming in here. but when our officers are met by frauds constructed with all the ingenuity of the Oriental mind to bring coolies and laborers in here under the guise of the excepted classes. it is necessary to have stringent provisions for reaching the distinction which it is our duty to make. There is no desire certainly on the part of anyone to subject members of the excepted classes to any undue or any improper restrictions or difficulties. but there is absolute necessity that we should have the means of disinguishing the classes entitled to enter from the class which it is intended to prohibit. On the point of frauds I do not propose.