I wish to state substantially the same as the Senator from Colorado has stated.- I am decidedly in favor of a careful revision of our immigration laws. I am in favor of restrictive provisions to prevent anarchists and all bad men from coming to this country. But I think it is a subject that ought to be treated by itself1 not to be connected at all with the tariff bill. The tariff bill deals with property and only property. An immigration bill deals with a much higher question. something more than property. that which affects the dignity. the interest. and the prosperity of the United States. Whenever a committee of this body shall take up that subject and give it full consideration. I shall go a considerable extent beyond our present laws in restraining immigration. but I will not seek to connect that subject with another measure entirely different.
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