I think it contains. inany provisions of very great value. and I would regret exceedingly to have its passage prevented. Let me make one further suggestion. I think I can appreciate. probably ibetter than most Senators. the reasons which: perhaps led to the inclusion of this clause. because it is in my: own State apd in my own city that the evil resulting from the: immigration of criminals has been most deeply felt. It has been a very great evil. it is so now. It is making collections. groups of the most desperate criminals in our American cities.. and especially in my own city of New York. and I feel sure that the recommendation for the insertion of this clause by the departmuent was with tile sincere desire to make it possible for the immigration ollicers to keep out the Black Hand and the Camorra. which are so injurious to the maintenance of order and the enforcement of law in the city of New York. I feel sure that the clause was inserted with a good intention. I do not wvant. however. to let this occasion pass without expressing my belief that this clause was framed by oflicers who were thinking about keeping out Italian criminals and were not thinking about Russia at all. but because. as so frequently happens. a clause put in with one idea in mind may produce unexpected results in other directions.
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