It is late to contemplate the idea. probably. but an authorized delegation of business men in Washington would be very valuable just now. And again in like manner and in the same issue it says: sia SLOPE Afen re CiINOS. At a ieeting of the Senators and Representatives of the Pacific slope held in Washington the following paragraph was adopted. to he made a part of the Chinese exclusion bill now pending in Congress: "That from and after the passage of this act the entry into the Americai mainland territory of the United States of Chinese laborers coming from any of the insular possessions of the United States shall be absolutely prohibited. and the prohibition sha apply to all Chinese laborers. as well as to such as were in insular possessions at the time or times of acquisition thereof respectively by the United States. or to those who havre come there since and those who have been born there since and those who may come there hereafter aud those who may hereafter be born there." It will he noticed that the paragraph contains nothing that will prevent the importation of cooly contract labor in the archipelago. anid Congress will doubtless be governed by the recommendations of the Commission in that regard. therefore the recent communications to the American Chamber of Commerce becomes of additional importance. This Manila newspaper was sent to the memnbers of Congress. evidently with the intention of giving us the real conditions in reference to labor that prevails there. It is clear that an article signed "Observer." which bears the earmarks of one having authority and knowing whereof he speaks. in the same issue had a like purpose.
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