That may be explained in very large part in this way: The steamship companies have been bringing a large number of Chinese. thousands of them. into Lower California. Mexican territory. to work on certain plantations that are down there. particularly around a place called Mexicali. Those people. on account of the military operations down there. have been simply pouring over the border of soutlern California. and we have been kept very busy rounding them up and deporting them. We have Spent in that way about $5.000 already this year. and they are still coming. Our transportation account is about $8.000 short for the year. We have a deficiency therein of about $8.000. That. of course. is scattered. A large part of it will go. for example. in connection with the transportation and deportation of Chinese from southern California. and the large increase in deportation on departmental warrants means additional transportation. because even though the steamship companies take them from the seaboard. we must transport them and foiard them from the interior points to the seaboard. The deportations or the entire fiscal year last year on warrants were 3.461. and for the first six months of this fiscal year they have been 2.359. or an increase of 28 per cent. It will be seen where that money has gone. I might say that it represents Increased efficiency in ridding the country of undesirables.
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