It is narrow. bigoted. intolerant. and indefensible legislation. It assumes conditions that do not exist. and aims to correct evils that are purely imaginary. It suggests the want of laws to prevent undesirable Chinese immigration into this country. when the fact is that existing laws are entirely adequate to accomplish that purpose. The bill comes to the Senate bearing the indorsement of the Pacific coast Senators. It is called a Pacific coast bill. and we are asked to support it because of certain alleged evils that exist on the Pacific coast in connection with Chinese immigration. The authorship of the bill has been somewhat in doubt. and had not the junior Senator from Massachusetts assured the Senate that it is a welldigested measure. one might well have attributed it to the fertile brain of some sandlot agitator. Fortunately for us all the authorship of the bill has come to light. as will be seen by this extract from the statements made befoie the Committee on Immigration of the Senate when they had this bill under consideration. A Mr. Livernash was before the committee. and he was asked by the chairman: Will you please state whom you represent?
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