For the simple reason that in the case of the terfitory Included in these lines. as those who are familiar with it and who are charged with cooperating with your committee have declared. the -vast majority of the inhabitants are of the very races that we are seeking to exclude in the islands contiguous to the coast of Asia. If the .Senator is better informed than ii. as a matter -of course this has no weight with him. but the information received -by the committee was that even were it to stand after we shall have made a treaty with Russia the territory excluded is almost entirely populated -by descendants of the Mongolian race.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that the territory is populated by undesirable races.