Williams. and myself started in to protest. We kept up the debate on Saturday. Monday was the 4th. and the bill went over to Monday. when. by explaining the effect of naturalizing the Chinese. we gained convertsnot a majority. but a very respectable minority. Finally. a compromise was effected extending the naturalization laws to the whites and persons of African descent. thus leaving out the Asiatics. At that time there were probably 125.000 Chinese in the United States. If they had been allowed to be naturalized and to become voters. there probably never would have been any exclusior. but there would have been great trouble. As time progressed it was ascertained that the Chinaman was a laborer with whom no white man could compete. He could work longer hours on less food. with less accommodation. and at less expense than a white man. and he was driving the whites from the Pacific coast.
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Chinese laborers are described as being able to work longer hours for less pay and driving whites from the Pacific coast.