Speech #570043673

I gave you what Mr. Carlisle said in 1893. In 1896 Hon. Charles S. Hamlin. Acting Secretary. to whose Department Chinese matters especially belonged. announced the following. shown in Regulations of 1896. at page 9. He says: The persons referred to in the acts of Congress to which these regulations applied. and whose immigration into the United States is prohibited. are limited to Chinese laborers. That was in 1896. and there was never. Mr. President. until after 1896. an attempt on the part of any Treasury official to give to this any other interpretation. and 1896 was two years after the treaty of 1894 was negotiated and put into operation.