I desire to congratulate my colleagues of the House as well as the country at large on the completion of this bill. For many weeks in the first session of this Congress your committee sat here considering all the questions presented in regard to the conflicting interests of those who had something at stake in the passage of this bill. Owing to the change of the sources of immigration from the northern counties of Europe to those in the south. a different class of people had been coming to our shores. There was practically nothing standing in their way but a series of Treasury Department decisions. which had been promulgated in an effort to cure this evil. These have been carefully collated and placed in this bill.
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