Speech #660274627

The substitute. section 13. which I have submitted to the chairman of the committee. is a confidential print of the original bill providing that the Chinese exclusion act shall not be amended or altered by this legislation. We have a Chinese exclusion act. my colleagues. which is now effective upon the Pacific coast and with wlich we are all satisfied. There are 400.000.000 Chinamen across the Pacific that are trying by some subterfuge or another to break into the United States. Under the existing law they understand the matter .exactly as it is. Now. if we leave the Chinese exclusion act just as it is and affirmatively say in this legislation that the Chinese exclusion act shall continue. we will have no trouble upon the Pacific coast. And besides that. under the present law the Chinese umerchants can come to the United States. an.d a very promising trade is now coming on the Pacific.through the Chinese 1merchants of China and of this country. Now. it is my judgment that the original print of this bill covers all of these points that I have undertaken to suggest to my colleagues. and it will make it much more effective and be much better for us on the Pacific coast. Now. under section 13 as it is now written. the provisions of this bill are in addition to the existing law. So no Chinese merchant out of China can come to the United States and trade with the American merchant or merchants of his own country in the United States. It safeguards everything and makes the relations much plainer. and out of all theinterpretations by the department of the various phases of the Chinese exclusion act it will remain just where it is. and no Chinaman can come to the United States.