Armenia. and Austria and the Armenian and other Christians from Turkey. If it had been in force in 1848. it would have kept out Germans like Carl Schurz. who fled after the German revolutions. and it is an outrageous provision to be thought of by a free country. Incidentally it nullifies. at the option of foreign countries. every favorable proviso in the immigration law. The new provision I find is on page 3 of the conference report. I will read the first two lines on page 2: That the following classes of aliens shall t- excluded from admission into the United States. Then it goes on to name different classes to be excluded. which I will omit. but the language inserted as a new matter reads as follows: Citizens or subjects of any country that Issues penal certificates or certificates of character who do not produce to the immigration olficials such a certificate. It is perfectly evident. Mr. President. that unless the immigrants haye those certificates they will not be admitted to this country. It Is obvious that in any of the foreign countries where they are opposed to the emigration of their young men regulations will be made requiring these certificates. and these certificates they will not be able to obtain. So. Mr. President. I believe that we should ask to have this report referred to the committee of conference. I do not care to argue the point of order made against it. but we know that it is new matter. that it is matter which was neither in the House bill nor in the Senate bill. .1769 It has been said that we must restrict immigration in order to give labor a better and a fairer show.
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