Speech #580004334

Hon. ORVILLE H. PLATT. in which is contained the statistics of immigration into Cuba for the fiscal year 1901. That was when "the order of 1899 was in full force and effect. when. according to the Senator from Mlassachusetts. Chinese exclusion was in full operation. By these statistics we find that. except from Spain. there was a larger immigration from China into Cuba that year than from any other country. Every country upon the face of the globe is apparently given in this table. We discover from it that of Americans there were 514 immigrants. that there were but 349 Cubans. there were 725 Porto Ricans. there were 14.808 Spaniards. but from China there was an immigration of 756 persons. The Senator from Massachusett. suggested that Chinese may come into this country now under our exclusion laws. That is true. but will the Senator from Massachusetts suggest that Chinese laborers may come into this country? Certain specified classes may come into this country. and. then under many most effective restrictions. certainly not laborers. When we turn to an additibnal table we find that of the 756 Chinese who immigrated into. Cuba in 1901. 898 were laborers. 320 were merchants. dealers. and others of like callings. so that with an alleged Chineseexclusion law in effect in Cuba in 1901. with the United States in full and undisputed possession of the island. we find in the face of the laws that over 750 Chinese immigrated into that island. of whom more than onehalf were ordinary Chinese laborers. I take it. Mr.