The Pacific Mail Steamship Company. whose vessels ply between Hongkong and San Francisco. competes with at least one English company running vessels between Hongkong and San Francisco and carrying Asiatic seamen. The Canadian Pacific steamships do not. I am informed. carry so many Chineseproportionately as do the transPacific steamships plying to Pacific ports o the United States. The general manager of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. an able and intelligent officer. submitted a statement which was presented to the Senate yesterday. as follows: It is therefore apparent from the above that if the vessels of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. which form but a minimum percentage of the total tonnage employed in transPacific trade. are compelled to substitute foreign seamen other than Chinese or seamen who have "intention papers" for the present crews. it will affect to a very small degree the employment of the socalled American sailor on the Pacific coast.