However earnest our anxiety may be to contribute something In the way of salutary legislation toward promoting the morals of society. we can not shut our eyes to the fact that the Congress of the United States operates under certain limitations. XLV35 and no Invalid law has ever yet. or ever can. contribute anything toward the promotion of a great reform. In the naturalization law we passed two years ago a portion of section 3 was held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in an opinion that may be decisive of several provisions in the pending bill. This bill aims toward preventing undesirable people from coming to our country. and it further undertakes to provide for the deportation of aliens whose undesirability may have been developed after arrival here. In so far as it relates to the control of aliens and the subject of deportation there can be no sort of question about its validity. The Federal Government is sovereign in relation to all international matters. and it has complete and plenary control over the subject of immigration. There was a provision in the present immigration law making it a crime for any person In this country to harbor in a house of prostitution an alien who had not been in the country three years. The Supreme Court decided that Congress had no power to punish an offense of that kind. The present bill includes substantially the same provision. except it contains a clause requiring the harboring of an alien woman in a house of prostitution to have been done in pursuance of her unlawful importation.
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