Crea. lug of the Chinese. and unless you adopt some law that will give it to the whites. there is where it will go." (ChineseExclusion Hearings. Sen. Com. "aRESOLUTIONS. on Immigration. pp. 242257.) "Ii the course of his testimony before the Senate committee Mr. Furusoth Whereas Senator HANNA and Senator FRYE have stated that the heat stated that at present the transPacific steamship companies controlling yes- in the stokeholds of steamers trading to the Orient is such that no white sels running between oriental ports and transcontinentalrailway terminals stokers can endure the same. and in the Pacific States employ Chinese exclusively as sailors. stokers. cooks. "Whereas this statement appears to have been the cause of the Senate votstewards. and waiters. in down the antiChinese amendment to the shipsubsidy bill. and "During the recent Chineseexclusion hearings before the same commit- Whereas the statement is without any foundation in fact. the truth being tee one of the transPacific steamship corporations interested in this mat- that white stokers go in the transports from this coast through the Suez. the terthe Pacific Mail Companyproduced as a witness Capt. William B.
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