If I understand correctly the bill introduced by the gentleman from Pennsylvania . it contains a requirement that no alien immigrant shall be admitted in the United States unless he shall exhibit to the United States inspectors of arriving immigrants at the place of admission a certificate signed by the United States consul at the port from which he sailed. That is the substance. I understand. of the proposition. Now. let me suppose a case. Take the case of a German citizen who has not performed the required military service. or who has been engaged in a revolution like that of 1848. which swept all over Europe. and who desires to leave Germany and come to this country. does the gentleman believe that it would be practicable for such a man to go to any United States consul in Germany and secure from that consul a certificate which would entitle him to land in this country?
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