Speech #580070550

I take it. therefore. that that was the object of it. The seventh section defines who a Chinese person or person of Chinese descent shall be. Without reading it. it is in effect that if a person comes here from China asking to be admitted. with the certificate of the consul that he is not a laborer. he is to be excluded if he is a Chinese person or a person of Chinese descent. and that is to be determined by the rule as to whether he had a Mongolian ancestor one hundred and four years ago who was a subject of a Chinese Emperor. and if an inspector says that he believes such is the case. then the person is excluded unless he can then and there prove to the contrary. That is what section 7 is. Whom does it exclude? A good many Japanese. all Koreans. a very large proportion of Filipinos. for they had Mongolian ancestors who were subjects of the Emperor of China one hundred years ago. So if they have one particle of Chinese blood in their veins. coming down from an ancestor of a hundred years ago. they are to be excluded on the statement of the inspector that he believes they had such an ancestor. unless right then and there they can prove the contrary. I submit.