I have not had the time to give sufficient consideration to the particular amendment presented to state to the Senate how well I think it might work. but it ought certainly to be dealt with in conference. The situation Is now that the whole subject of alien seamen and all relating to that subject has been stricken from the bill. and the bill would go into conference without any provision covering the Introduction of alien seamen. I have talked the matter over with the Secretary of Labor. who told me voluntarily more than a year ago that the worst evasion of the Chinese exclusion act comes through the Chinese who are brought here in the engine room of a ship. or in some similar way. and who slip in when they get to port and become residents of the United States. That is one of the worst methods adopted for evasion of the law. Something. ought to be done about it.
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