They can come in unlawfully just the same afterwards. Those ports were open heretofore for the entry of Chinese under the law. yet notvithstanding that the gentleman says hundreds of Chinese were illegally smuggled into this country through that northern border. Now. what is to prevent their being smuggled in hereafter. and smuggled in in greater numbers. if there are no officers up there to permit them to come in legally? It seems to me. Mr. Chairman. that if we are to permit the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration to have power to name any ports. we ought to let him have power to name them all.
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