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I will answer that in this way: I was at Ellis Island just last spring. The cominmissioner of iulmigration there told me that a family had come over in which some members represented themselves as being carpenters. The question was whether they ought not to be deported because of their liability to become a public charge He said he thought he had a right to take into consideration among other things the condition of the labor market. He wvent out into the city of New York amid found that last spring there were 3.000 carpenters in that city who were absolutely unemployed.