Speech #590183042

If this change had not been made. the importation of laborers into the Zone would have been seriously interfered with. Section 34 prohibits the sale of liquors in the Capitol. It has. of course. no place in the immigration act. It is not repealed. but is simply left out of the act. and the new section 34 permits the appointment of a commissioner of immigration at New Orleans. Section 36 was the repealing clause of the old law. The new section 36 prohibits aliens from entering the United States except at the seaports thereof or at such place or places as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may from time to time desigXLI284 nate. Curiously enough. although there was under the old law provision for deporting aliens who were found to be in the United States illegally. there was no provision preventing aliens from coining in wherever they saw fit. whether there was an inspection at the point or not. The proviso is to facilitate the passage of residents of Canada and Mexico across our northern and southern boundaries. respectively. Section 37 had a curious history. It was drafted bk the late Senator Hoar to cover the case of the wife and two children of a Syrian living in Worcester. Mass.. and so strictly was this idea followed that it provided for the admission of "said wife and cither of said children." It also provided that the act should be applicable only when the contagious disorder was contracted on shipboard. and. curiously enough. after further providing that said wife or children should be held until it should be determined whether the disorder was easily curable. failed to provide whether they should be adnitted or deported after such fact was ascertained. The section was a curious example of the evil which generally results from passing a general statute to cover a particular case. The principle. however. was good. and the law now recognizes that a family may consist of either more or less. as well as two children. and strikes out the provision that the disease was contracted on shipboard. which is. of course. immaterial. and provides what the kindly Senator from Massachusetts evidently intended to providethat is. that if the disease is found to be easily curable the persons can be landed.