Mr. President. I think I should state. in justice to the committee. that when this amendment was drafted we had in mind two classes of aliensthose who are passing through our immigrant stations day by day. who will be provided for if the amendment of the Senator from New Hampshire is adopted. and also that other class. a large number of whom have centered in the large cities of the country. The leading periodicals of the country have often called attention to their condition and to the necessity of relieving the congestion existing in many of the cities by proonoting the distribution of that class of aliens and inducing them to go into the country districts. Quite a large number of charitable organizations have been formed for this purpose and are working in this direction. I may say at this point that one of the very best works these associations are doing Is to take the immigrants who -come to the large cities and make an attempt to secure their distribution before they become fully settled in the cities. I am told that out of the comparatively small number of immigrants who are admitted and who have no definite address. and therefore go into New York City. as much as 60 per cent are being diverted and sent to points outside of that city within sixty days after they arrive. I make this statement upon the authority of a gentleman who has been in consultation with the class of associations which I have mentioned and who secured information upon which the statement was based. But I see from the debate that a portion of this amendment is drawn in such a way as to fail of the approbation. apparently. of the Senate. and I do not wish to stand in the way of any amendment which will leave so much of the proposed amendment as will Inaugurate the work along the lines which have been suggested by the various Senators who have discussed this question.
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