Speech #570041103

Mr. President. I hope that no Senator who is sincerely in and the right of transit is provided for in this bill. favor of Chinese exclusion. who is impressed with the necessity When a treaty excludes all Chinese except certain excepted of protecting the white labor of this country. and especially of classes. and names those that are excepted. then. under every rule the Pacific coast and other sections of the United States which of construction. all are excluded except those expressly mentioned. the Chinese may readily reach. from competition with Chinese and when it is complained that under this bill a banker or a phywill commit the grave mistake of resting satisfied with any meas- sician or others can not come in. we have a right to say it is the ure that does not include exclusion from the Philippine Islands fault of China. for China consented to a treaty which excludes and then exclusion from the United States by way of the Philip- them. pine Islands. To make that at all effective it is necessary that Now. without occupying more time on that subject and with there shall be a Federal statute. under which Treasury officials reference to the regulations found in the bill. they were found will be sent to the Philippine Islands for the purpose of enforcing necessary by the officers of the United States whose duty it is to the law. enforce this measure. They discovered that there never was a I will not occupy any more time now. but.