We- come to regard the subject as having. been fully gone over and. we get busy. with other matters and cease to give- close attention. Reading this amendment as I did and not following it on the map. I assumed that it applied to the inhabitantsof a "few scattered islands in the Indian Ocean. Following it upon the map I find that it excludes from entrance into the United States the inhabitants of about onequarter of the Asiatic continent. and that it does not exclude. about onethird of the Chinese Empire. Now. I am wondering why the committeecould not have run the line around China.