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Show Exclusion of Chinese. T) RESIDENT ROOSEVELT favors 1 tne exclusion of the Chinese from ! the United States. The report of Commissioner of Immigration Powder- I ly, and the exhaustive statement of President Samuel Gompers or the American Federation of Labor have convinced him that Chinese immigration immigra-tion is undesirable. A new phase, of the situation has just devolved. It is learned that the chief weapon employed by those hostile to the re-enactment of the Geary law has proved a boomerang. The opposition has taken tak-en the ground that it is inoperative, and has pointed out every possible defect de-fect and weakness in the exclusion law. President Roosevelt has given its arguments ar-guments the closest consideration, and having reached the conclusion that the Chinese must be excluded, has but one question to decide the best method meth-od of accomplishing that end. If he ! believes that thot.Geary law has weak ,.,...3 hi juvor us le-enaciment, with the loopholes, which the opposition opposi-tion has pointed out, so carefully guarded that the claim can never be made in the future that the law is inoperative. in-operative. Commissioner Powderly has further aided the president by pointing out slight defects which require correction, cor-rection, and it is believed that the whole subject will be presented to congress con-gress in President Roosevelt's message, with a strong recommendation. |