in Australia had either entirely excluded or had placed under very narrow restrictions the immigration of
420 Fong would pour Chinese laborers into our country every year in unnumbered thousands, unless they also were excluded from them, without any objection from the mother country. The complaints there from the conflict of white with Chinese labor had been covered by the Restriction Act. So the Act declares in its first section that from and after the expiration of ninety days from its passage and until the expiration of ten years the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, without any limitation of the country from which they might come, is suspended, and during such suspension, it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having come, after the expiration of the ninety days to remain within the United States.
All Chinese Laborers included The second section makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both for a master of a vessel to knowingly bring into the United States on his vessel, and land, or permit to be landed, any
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deep and as strongly expressed as any which ever arose from this State. Legislation by Congress excluding or restricting the immigration would never have been so long delayed except from a desire not to offend the Chinese Government. No consideration was deemed necessary to the position of other Governments with respect to Chinese within their borders. So when the Act of Congress was passed it had a double purpose. It was to carry out as its title indicates certain treaty stipulations with China and also to exclude Chinese laborers coming from any part of the world. Its framers knew, as we all know, that the island of Hong...
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was not specified, and complaints arose from the conflict.
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