Commissioner. if these Chinamen were coming in for thirty years. it seems strange that only 50.000 should have come in until 1900. and that 50.000 should have come in since then. The service must have been remiss since 1900. This testimony is convincing proof of what the league has more than once stated. that the Bureau of Immigration. under Secretary Straus. lacked sympathy with the policy of exclusion. and in consequence did not keep informed of the numbers of Chinese in the country and the continual arrivals through surreptitious methods At page 116 of the report quoted there appears certain questions which were asked Mr. Sargent relative to changes made in the administration of the law by order of the President and by department rulings. While the replies have little bearing upon the question at issue. the number of Chinese in the United States. the following may shed some light upon the attitude of the administration toward Chinese exclusion :
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