Speech #570041172

I have listened with great interest to the Senators speech. He is a faithful representative of his own people and an able representative of his State. He believes every word he says. and yet some of us in the far East. concerning whom it has been suggested in this debate that we are governed by impulse. benevolence. and that sort of thing. axe considerably puzzled to know why this intense desire to make the laws relating to Chinese exclusion so much more stringent than they are now. when the Twelfth Census shows that in the Senators own State the Chinese inhabitants have decreased about 40 per cent in the last ten years. It does not seem to us. looking at it over the distance that we have to look to discover the Pacific slope. as though there is any real imperative necessity for further exclusive laws when the Chinese population is decreasing in the country at a rapid rate and when it decreased in the Senators own State 40 per cent during the last ten years. Perhaps the Senator can give me some light on that point.