I think the Senator from Maryland does not quite understand what the effect of the extension of the laws would be. When we passed the organic act for Hawaii. making it territory of the United States. we extended the laws of the United States to those islands. and among other things. we extended the Chineseexclusion act. If we had extended those acts simply without making any provision for the certification of Chinese residents under those existing laws. as I understand them. every Chinaman in Hawaii would have been liable to deportation. because under the act extended to the Hawaiian Islands he would have had nothing to protect him whatever. Nov. we extend the law to all the islands under our jurisdiction. and a Chinaman in the Philippines has no method of avoiding. as I understand it. the deporting clauses of the law which we are now extending by this amendment.
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