The inspectors and the customhouse alike pointed to the Inspection certificate and let her go. and thus the vessel left in the United States any number from 5 to 30 Chinese. Necessarily those whose duty it was to prevent the coming to the United States of excluded persons made complaints. They went to the newspapers with these facts. which were promptly taken advantage of to show that the seamens act would destroy the system of exclusion and generally so interfere with immigration and exclusion laws as to make them. to some extent at least. ineffective. The Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor had powers to make regulations under which this could be stopped. They were petitioned to make such regulations. and some suggestions as to what the regulations might be were submitted to the two departments.
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