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Show NEW REGISTRATION OF THE CHINESE Portlaud, Ore.. Nov. 2 That a measure requiring an immediate re-registration re-registration of all Chinese now within with-in the United States is to be considered consid-ered at the next session of congress was the announcement of Daniel J. Kee, commissioner general of im- migration In the United States, who i was in Portland jesterday. ' Mr Keefe declared himself in fa I vor of radical exclusion measures. He advocates the giving of authority to his department to deport, without ref erence to the federal court, any Chinese Chi-nese found In the country without a certificate alter the new registra'iou shall have been ordered. Mr. Keefe regards the proposed law a3 the only succeful solution of the Chinese coolie labor question "While the number of Chinese do parting from the country is much larger larg-er thau the u.imber who find their way into the I'nited States, our Informal In-formal Ion is that "it per cent of those now here are here Illegally. "Since the last registration, Chinese who were boys then, have grown tip and do not.nt present resemble pictures pic-tures taken of them as babies, so it Is Impossible to refute pictorial evidence evi-dence successfully " i i |