Under the Geary Act immigration has been restricted and the numbers of the Chinese in the United States have been gradually decreasing.

In the year 1854 there were only 3,000 Chinese in the City of San Francisco; but even then there was agitation against them.

It was Governor Bigler who called them "coolies," and this term they repudiated with the same abhorrence which the negro or black man has for the term "nigger." They kept on increasing, however, until in 1875 there were in the whole State of California 130,000.

Of this number 30,000 were in San Francisco.
To-day there are only about 46,000 in California and there are not more than thirty thousand of these in the City of San Francisco.

There are only 110,000 Chinese altogether in the United States proper.