THE TIfE COOLIE QUESTION Under pressure from the forces of organized organized organ organ- labor the San Francisco Chamber of C Commerce Commerce Com Com- m- m merce and Merchants' Merchants Exchange have modified their resolutions asking Congress to pass pass a bill ill pe permitting unrestricted entry to the mercantile class of or of China by adding a clause asking for the total exclusion of coolie laborers Were Vere it practicable to discriminate between merchants salesmen accountants managers and bankers and the element sought to be prohibited the position of the commercial organizations might be defensible if not acceptable But the general consensus s of opinion in the far West Vest appears to be that even eyen with the concession to public sentiment above referred to it would be quite easy for Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese laborers to get into the country under the fiction of belonging to some branch of the class allowed allowed allowed al al- lowed to immigrate Earnest advocates of a drastic measure of exclusion exclusion ex ex- ex are greatly disappointed in view of the Surprising surprising sur sut- action of the San Francisco business community com corn It was WM fully understood and believed that the Pacific Coast was a unit against the introduction of any Chinese whatever clearly authorized and identified diplomats consuls and other public officers officers ers eels students and others now adm admissible alone ex- ex As matters it t is to be apprehended I that the people who are opposing any measure of exclusion will be encouraged to renewed effort and the progress of the matter before and andin in Congress will repay careful attention