I wish the Senator from Utah had been as anxious to please the steamship companies in other matters in this bill as he was in this particular. It has been shown that the Senator from Wisconsin was under a misapprehension in regard to my statement that the bill permits a Chinese ship to come in under the Chinese flag with a crew of bona fide seamen composed 100 per cent of Chinese. and 50 of them might jump overboard and swim ashore. and then the ship would have to take whatever seamen it could get to take their places to take the ship back to China. The point I am trying to make is this: We are by this bill driving our own ships off the Pacific. interfering with the entrance into our ports of the ships of foreign nations like England and Holland and France that have colonies in Asia who use their subjects on board their ships. and playing into the hands of two other friendly countries. Japan and China. by making it easier for them to secure business. because they can bring crews 100 per cent Asiatic into the ports. and we are not really protecting our ports against the entrance of aliens. We are promoting the commerce of two Asiatic nations at the expense of the commerce of our own Nation and of European nations.