I am not prepared now to discuss the constitutionality of the question. I hope that that and every other constitutional objection will be discussed and finally decided by the Supreme Court. But it strikesme that if. as the Supreme Court has decided. we have the right to pass such a bill as this. which I do not deny. by virtue of the inherent sovereignty of the United States to protect itself from undesirable immigration or the residence of undesirable aliens. then I believe the measures here enacted in the exercise of that power to make it efficient or adaptable to the end in view are not unnecessarily harsh or cruel. I can not conceive how a general deportation of a large class of people could ever be efficiently carried out if upon the inception of the act of deportation. in addition to allowing an inquiry. which they areen titled to. and by habeas corpusas to the legality of their arrest to determine whether they are subject to the provisions of the law or not. the court should also be allowedto give bail.. because if that were the case the whole object of the act. it seems to me. might be very easily defeated. But that is a matter. Mr.
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