As chairman of the committee I should like to state to the Senator from Georgia. who is. I believe. as sincerely interested as any other member of the committee in perfecting the bill so that it may be an effective method of immigration restriction. that at the time this provision was retained in the bill the point had not been raised as to whether it conflicted in any way with our treaty or international obligations. I am not prepared to say at this time whether the arguments made upon that question are. as far as I am concerned. valid or not. I am not one of those disposed to lay that stress upon international or treaty obligations that others would be disposed to give them who are perhaps much better versed than I upon international law and international obligations. But the question has been raised since the report of the bill and since the framing of the report of the committee. It has recently been raised and ably presented bythe Senator from Ohio and by other Senators and in other quarters. In deference to the raising of that question and in consideration of the fact that there is something in it. in their opinion at any rate. and their opinion is entitled to the greatest respect. and in view of the fact that the alteration in the bill made upon the motion of the Senator from Massachusetts by which the word "passenger" was stricken out and "alien immigrant" inserted will remove to a very large extent the inconvenience that would follow from unduly harassing our neighbors upon the Mexican and Canadian border. I feel sure if the Senator from Georgia will consider carefully the bill as it stands at present there is not much in his objection. and it gives no great inconvenience to our neighbors in Canada or in Mexico or in any way diminishes the effectiveness of the measure. As far as I am concerned.
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