That amendment. with the exception of the last three or four words. is identical with the bill that passed this House and the .Senate in the Fiftyfourth Congress. It covers the two sections having reference to what are known as "birds of passage." Now. it was shown in the debate on that bill in the Fiftyfourth Congress that many thousands of ablebodied men. who are aliens. come to this country between the 1st of March and the 1st of December every year. many of them skilled artisans. earning in the aggregate millions of dollars. and. having families in foreign lands. take the fruits of labor in this country to their foreign homes at the end of each labor season. It was shown by the statistics from the immigration department that from 50.000 to 75.000 persons in different years come for that purpose. These two sections were incorporated in that bill. and I have cut them out bodily. That bill was vetoed by President Cleveland.
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