The provision at the bottom of page 27. which gives the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration. with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. full power to suspend the privilege of transit. when. under the treaty. we have only the right to regulate it. Why should we do this? Earlier in my remarks I called attention to the very small number of those who have been deported from our country because of being here illegally. I find by examining the brief of the Assistant AttorneyGeneral. filed in one of the pending cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. that he makes the statement that between 1883 and 1901. a period of eighteen years. there were only 37.688 applications for the privilege of transit. or an average of about 2.100 annually. and that during that time none of those were refused. In examining the figures for the last eight years I find the number applying for that privilege has decreased so that it has amounted upon an average to only about 1.490 annually.
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