Speech #570000603

I suggest the substance. Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury shall have reason to believe that for the preservation of the peace of the United States or for the prevention of crime within or without the United States against the Government of the United States. or any government with which the United States is at peace. it is expedient to remove or deport therefrom any alien anarchist (defining anarchist) who may be in the United States. it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to cause an order to be served upon such alleged alien anarchist directing that such alien anarchist shall depart the United States within a time to be in such order specified. and if such alien anarchist shall knowingly and willfully refuse or neglect to obey such order. or shall be found in the United States after the service of such order and after the expiration of the time limited and specified in such order. such alien anarchist shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof in a district court of. the United States (and said district courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of offenses under this act) such alien anarchist shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall suffer imprisonment not exceeding three months for the first offense and not exceeding one year for the second or any subsequent offense. provided always that nothing in this act contained shall affect any person belonging to the diplomatic or consular service of any foreign state or nation. nor any person belonging to the domestic establishment of any foreign ambassador or public minister. nor any person attendant upon the same. nor any alien under 16 years of age. Under such a statute the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration should be authorized. under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury. to use the inspectors and agents of his office and the like officers employed under the Chineseexclusion acts to find and report to the Secretary of the Treasury all such alien anarchists. who could deport such as he found should be deported under the statute and under such regulations and rules as the statute should empower him to establish.