So far as the remarks of the gentleman from Iowa go that is absolutely correct. except that I do not mean to commit myself to the percentage. When they are aware on the other side that the law against the mentally defective is well enforced here. they do not start from the other side. but every time we let down the bars of inspection on this side. that encourages those who ought not to come to start. and the records of the steamship companies to which we have access show. that in the year 1906. while 12.000 aliens were barred by law the steamship companies stopped 50.000 of them that had already paid for a ticket but whom they knew the authorities would not allow to enter the United States. You provide a loophole for them anywhere and those 50.000 will come. and the Immigration Committee realizes these facts and realizes that there is a weak spot in Philadelphia. and the committee. so far as those present were concerned. were unanimously in favor of this bill.
Keywords matched
Immigration