I think he would have been less disturbed about our exceeding our powers in this instance. We have seen. not once. but many times. a tariff bill which has passed both Houses go into a conference and come out a new bill in all its essential provisions. and the action was defended and sustained on the ground which has been mentioned in several of the extracts furnished us by the Senator from Marylandthat the subjectmatter of the bill was all before the conference for any changes they desired to make. The entire subjectmatter of the restriction of immigration by an illiteracy test was before the committee of conference. and so also there was before the committee of conference the entire subject of the exclusion of aliens who come habitually to this country and return to another. taking up no residence here. That was embodied in what is known as the Corliss amendment. which. as part of the House bill. was before the committee. Mr.
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