Mr. Chairman. in a very large sense I agree with my colleague on the Committee on Immigration. The language of the law would seem to be plain. "that the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States." and then the classes are enumerated. But the Supreme Court has held that that language does not cover alien seamen. for instance. and today we have no immigration statute which includes any man that comes as a seaman. There were seven cases decided in the United States circuit court. in the majority of which it was held that where an alien had been here and acquired a domicile and went back to his own country. and then returned to this country. the law did not apply to him. because the law was only meant to apply to alien immigrantsthose coming the first time.
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