H2 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Mr. Caanprer. Well, in Los Angeles County, probably, and as to
the percentage, I do not think there is any doubt of it.
The Crairman. Do you know whether the census enumerators
in the past have had any difficulty in recognizing and designating
citizens of American ancestry and outright Mexicans?
Mr. CaanoreR. No, I do not know a thing about that.
The CuatrmMaN. Would that likely create a difficulty?
pr. CuanpLER. I do not think there would be any difficulty about
that.
The CrairmaN. We find that there has been a considerable increase
in the last 10 years of Mexican population in Texas, Arizona, New
Mexico, Colorado, and California, that is, Mexicans from old Mexico,
who are citizens of the United States—American citizens.
Mr. Caaxprer. The most of the Mexicans who have come into
our part of the country have come in when they specially wanted
employment and when our employers needed them they have gone
down there to let them know there were opportunities for employment
 and to ascertain if they could come in. I am particularly
familiar with that, because our property lies right along the border.
The Cuatrman. That is exactly what I want to know about.
Mr. Ceanprer. I might say that, in advocating the bringing in of
Mexican labor I am advocating something that our manager down
there criticizes me for every time the subject comes up between us,
because in the cotton-picking season we have 8.000 to 10,000 Mexican
laborers picking cotton.
The CrairmaN. In the United States or below the line?
Mr. CeanDLER. On eur lands below the border.
The Cuareman. In Mexico?
Mr. Caanprer. Yes, and almost every year we have to send down
farther into Mexico and bring up a lot of laborers for our needs.
Mr. Scuneiper. Why did the manager criticize vou for advocating
bringing the Mexicans in?
The Cuarrman. He was about to tell us.
Mr. Cuanprer. I was trying to explain that. I think year before
last we paid $90,000 in steamboat charges incident to bringing labor
up the Gulf and putting them to work on our property below the line;
and within a month, because they were paying more wages on the
American side, where they needed cotton pickers, a large percentage
of them went across into the United States and we lost them. That
is why my manager down there is so incensed at my advocating
letting them come into the United States. It is costing our properties
south of the line a quarter of a million to a third of a million dollars
every year more for Mexican labor than it would if the line was
slosed.
Mr. ScuxEIDER. Your manager is located on the Mexican side,
and if they gain the American privilege it is his loss.
Mr. CHANDLER: Every time we hire them he has lost laborers.
Mr. ScuneipER. In other words, the American employers in Mexico
are all against Mexican labor for cheap labor here.
Mr. Cravprer. They do not do it in that form.
Mr. Scaxeiper. That is the fact.
Mr. Cranprer. Our men leave our properties south of the border
and eome onto the American side.