Speech #620257985

The gentleman must know his error. Section 3 of my bill contains a far better Chineseexclusion act than the existing one. I call the gentlemans attention to section 3. where it says. page 7. that "all persons who are not eligible to become citizens of the United States by naturalization " are excluded. The gentleman must have been depending too much upon specious arguments for his information about the contents of my bill. for if he had ever read it he would have found that section 3 is far stronger than the existing Chineseexclusion laws. The gentleman certainly knows that a Chinaman or person of the Asiatic or Mongolian race can not become a citizen by naturalization. Medical examinations are to be sought rather than to be abhorred. They are a good thing for literates and illiterates. and I do not object to the gentlemlans statement about my favoring medical examinations for immigrants. for every one of them. and the gentleman knows thht that is what quarantine is for. that and fumigation. The gentlemans committee held hearings all last year and has been holding them all this year. and I find from a perusal of the published hearings of both years that practically the same persons appeared before the committee each time. Each time it was the same old lineup. with countenance and speech the same.