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One of the most significant businesses operated by
Chinese were noodle parlors, especially beloved in Butte,
where there were parlors to match any consumer's needs:
some were opulent and gilt, some were small and cramped,
some were expensive, some were cheap, but nearly any resi-
dent of the mining city could enjoy a bowl of Chinese food,
whatever their station. They were so central to the commu-
nity of Butte that, according to William Burke, "After dance,
show or celebration, it was the custom of the Butte bloods to
end the evening by a visit to the noodle parlors."
In 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act, a much more damag-
ing piece of legislation than the territorial Alien Law, was
signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur. To this day,
it remains the only law ever passed in American history
that aimed to prevent the entirety of a specific ethnicity or
nationality from entering the country. More specifically yet,
the text of the law proscribed that no "skilled and unskilled
laborers and Chinese employed in mining" would enter
the country for ten years. Renewed again in both 1892 and
1902, the act was decried by Republican Senator George
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