We finally weeded them all out until we bad about 70 that had come in as merchants and 40 or 50 as students. There were over 100 in that batch of 400 or 500 who had been up in Alaska all summer cleaning and picking fish. and yet they had been landed as students and merchants. (Id.. p. 191.) In the following tables will be shown the various methods by which Chinese gain admission to the United States. These tables are taken from reports of the Bureau of Immigration. as are the comments which accompany them. It is not possible to submit a complete analysis of the tables contained in this compilation. but a comparison between Tables I and VIII. which comprise the years from 1894 to 1908. relative to the number of Chinese admitted to the United States. shows a. tremendous discrepancy in the totals and also the difficulties which attend the enforcement of the exclusion laws and the reasons why the census enumerators fail to obtain correct information concerning the number of Chinese residents among us. Tables VIII.
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