My understanding differs from that of the Senator from Utah. Let me explain just what the amendment does. It provides that if any ship comes into our ports bringing from another country a seaman who is ineligible to citizenship. the seaman shall be removed from the ship by the immigration authorities. regardless of any intention of deserting. and shipped back to his home country on some other vessel. It follows from that that if a .Tapanese ship comes Into the port of New York or San Francisco and has a single Chinaman in its crew. our men board that ship. seize that Chinaman. and send him back to China on some other vessel. It follows that a British ship could not bring a Lascar into any of our ports. that a Chinese ship could not bring a Korean.
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