Mexico. or from Canada. As soon as the bill was restricted by the first amendment agreed to in its application only to aliens. then ceased at once the necessity for exempting the countries that are mentioned. The reason was that stated by the Senator from Massachusetts. namely. that the purpose of this bill is to regulate the coming into this country of alien immigrants. and it ought to apply to an alien immigrqnt without regard to the country from which he may come. There is no reason why we should apply one rule to an alien immigrant coming from Mexico or Canada and another rule to an alien immigrant coming from some other country. So much. therefore. for the purpose of the bill and the policy that we are seeking to establish and to subserve. But I had in view another thought which was at the bottom of the objection I made to the bill as it was originally framed.
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