Speech #520151355

Certainly. The act of 1891 provides that "all of the Treasury under the immigration laws prior to the act of idiots. insane persons. paupers. or persons liable tobecome apub- 1891. that law plainly and distinctly excludes all paupers or perlie charge. persons suffering from a loathsome ordangerous con- sons likely to become a public charge. no one in authority had tagious disease. persons who have been convicted of a felony or any right or power to take a bond or guarantee that such immiother infamous crime." and so on through a long list. shall be pro- grant should not become a public charge without violating this hibited from coming to this country. This bill is intended to law. This course. which had been the practice to a limited exenforce that law of 1891. tent. aTorded a very slight excuse for the illegal admission of