T Then follows the clause that is in controversy. I imagine that everybody is anxious for this country to exclude the criminal classes of Europe. I imagine that :one of the most difficult things immigrant officers have to deal with Is the matter of determining who are subject to this provision and who are not. The Senator from New York suggests that if this amendment inserted by the conferees is allowed to stand. the countries of Europe might pass laws requiring these penal certificates and thereby exclude the classes that otherwise might be admitted to this country. I should like to ask the Senator if he does not think it would help this country to exclude the criminal classes if all the countries of Europe were to adopt laws providing for penal certificates. so that we might have the finding of those countries that this and that man was a erhinal without having to search the records ourselves in order to get the information which it is so difficult to secure?
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