Yet. Mr. Speaker. while the first section of the bill brings forth these observations. because no longer. as in the present law. is the statute to apply to immigrants who have not heretofore been lawfully admitt*ed to the country. but the bill is made to apply to "any person not a nativeborn or naturalized citizen of the United States" and is to include all these aliens. Yet important as it may be to carefully consider such a situation. or the effect of the language which the conferees have inserted. you want to rush this bill hastily and hurriedly to a vote. In the third clause of the bill it is proposed to absolutely exclude from entrance into this country all "citizens or subjects of any country that issues penal certificates or certificates of character who do not produce to the immigration officials such a certificate." In countries such as Russia and Roumania the emigrant desirous of leaving to migrate hither might find himself or herself In severe plight and encounter intolerable hardships to get such certificate. if he or she belong to the class of people who come within their policy of proscription or against whom their religious or racial intolerance is directed. In some countries. whether Russia or Italy. Roumania or Hungary.
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