Mr. Chairman. I want to continue the discussioni of immigration which I began in this House three of four days ago. with the understanding that any amount of interruption of a fair kind is welcome. The other day I pointed out certain things which. for the sake of lucidity. I am going to recapitulate for a few minutes. I pointed out to this House the necessity for keeping fairly in our minds the difference between the selection of immigration and the restriction of immigration. There are two schools of thought. one school believes in selective measures and the other believes in restrictive measures. The ideas of the selective school. for instance. are expressed by the bill of Senator Dir.LINonAM. which provides for the exclusion of aliens of poor physique or weakminded. and of minors whose parents remain in their country of origin. The bill for a head tax is a restrictive bill. introduced for the purpose of cutting immigration down in numbers. absolutely irrespective of the quality of the immigrant himself. Now. I also want to recapitulate what I said about the importation of contract labor. I made the statement that. in my opinion. not much less than twothirds of our adult male immigration comes here under a contract expressed or implied. In support of my contention I published in the RECORD a statement made by CommissionerGeneral Sargent. by Mr. Campbell. of the Immigration Bureau. by Commissioner Williams. of New York. and by Inspector Marcus Braun. I want to explain more fully to this House why it is impossible to enforce our law against the admission of contract labor. Every vessel when it comes over here has on its manifest the name of each passenger. Against the name appears the answer to a series of questions as to his destination. as to the amount of money he has in his possession. as to his occupation. and as to whether or not he has paid his own expenses in coming here.
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