I will not undertake to shift any responsibility upon any mefnber of a subcommittee or anyone else. I suppose it is permissible for me to state my views in regard to the matter without any reflection whatever on my part toward other gentlemen. The bill of which the gentleman speaks would exclude all Asiatics. We have a treaty that was made. I believe. in 1907 by which the Japanese are almost entirely being excluded. The records of the Commissioner General of Immigration show that within the last two years time only about 2.000 Japanese have come in each year and more than 5.000 have gone out. That being true. I stated to the committee that I believed that at this time it would be better. unless that condition was acute or grew to be acute. when 3.000 had gone out in the last two years more than had come in. that it certainly was not an acute condition as far as they were concerned. and as we already had a Chineseexclusion act which kept Chinese out. and the educational test would keep out a great many of the 2.000 coming inI mean coming in lawfully.
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