I want to call the committees attention to the fact that this amendment is in substance the law that today is the law of Australia. that is the law today of Cape Colony and Natal. that it is the law that is adopted and acted upon by British Columbia so far as the Province is concerned. and. notwithstanding the objections of England to the addition of such a provision in the laws of Australia. the people finally carried it out. and that is the law today. and the record shows that it practically excludes from the United States of Australia coolie labor.