Mr. President. before the yeas and nays are granted- upon- that amendment I. wish to: say- a few words. When- the immigration- bill was up in. the last Congress I offered an amendment precisely to the intended effect of this: one. We are beginning to. receive- now- some: very undesirable. immigration of the African race from the. West Indies. A great many Jamaican negroes have been employed upon the Panama. Canal. and after- the termination of that work. having become accustomed to American wages. which- they received down at Panama. a great many more of them begin to come to. the Gulf ports. Florida and Louisiana have. already -received a considerable proportion of African immigration from the French and English West Indies. that is- to: say. immigration of* WestIndians who are wholly or partly Africans- in. race. When this. bill was up before I gave the statistics and showed how this West Indian negro immigration was increasrIng from year to year. Now. I am very much In favor of this bill. I am very much in favor of the principle which this bill represents. I am very much In favor of excluding undesirable immigrants: from the United States. You have already a law whereby you exclude Chinese. Chinese are as. much. superior to negroes as can be. almost.
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Chinese are superior to negroes.