President. in the substitute bill it is left open to bring Chinamen from the Philippines into Hawaii and from the Philippines into the United States. for the simple reason that the existing laws did not contemplate. as they could not have contemplated it the time of their enactment the exclusion of Chinese in one part of the territory under the jurisdiction of the United States from entering the mainland territory of the United States. If the Senate. after consideration. is prepared to open the United States to the introduction of the Chinese of the PhilippinesI do not mean people of mixed blood. for I do not think that restriction ought to be madebut if we are ready to admit all Chinese of the Philippines into the United States it is for the Senate to say so. But when the Senate and the Congress of the United States have prohibited the passage of Chinese laborers from an organized territory. inhabited by citizens of the United States. into the mainland of the country. it is idle. as I think. to argue that we have not the power to prevent the immigration of Chinese from the Philippines into Hawaii. or into the United States. or into Porto Rico. My own belief is that it is better to shut them out. There is a large body of pure Chinese in the Philippinesmen born in China and who emigrated to the Philippines simply for what they could make. The provision I suggest now does not touch the question of the mixed bloods. and I think if the purpose is. as I believe it to be. to exclude Chinese labor from the United States we can not draw the line on such points as that made by the Senator from Missouri. We have shut out the Hawaiian Chinese.
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