STONE] does not add any other class to those who are already barred. It simply provides for the enforcement of the laws we now haveto provide for the inspection in Europe instead of inspection in our ports. If a man is a worthy immigrant. if he is an immigrant who does not come under any of the debarred classes. why. then. this inspection can not injure him. No damage can be done to the friends of my friend from Louisiana or of the gentleman from Missouri . Those men are not barred by the Stone bill provision. Provision is simply made whereby. if it had been in force duringthe past four months. 2.147 Italian immigrants would have been denied entrance at the port of New York. I do not see how anyone can object to the McCall bill. because when my friend from Missouri . the chairman of this committee. comes in and reports it as his bill. I think everyone else ought to be satisfied with it. He vouches for it. and the remarks which he has submitted in his very careful and able presentment show that he is opposed to unreasonable restrictions upon immigration. So I take it there will be no serious objection to the McCall bill. I can not see how any serious objection can be made to the Stone bill. for it simply provides for the enforcement of laws we already have on the statute books. and we certainly all wish that to be done.
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