The law as it now stands says that skilled laborers are to be admitted where skilled labor of a like character can not be found in this country. We make the same exception in favor of skilled labor in this bill. but we allow the question to be tried first as to whether skilled labor of like kind is found here before the skilled laborer is admitted. In practical execution it was found sometimes that skilled laborers would come to this country. and then the question would have to be gone into and decided as to whether there really was skilled labor of like kind in this country to be had. and if it was found that there was labor of that kind to be had those laborers were deported after having been brought here and put to great expense. We have changed that so as to permit a trial or a hearing upon that question in advance. and we allow anyone who feels aggrieved by the decision of the Department of Labor to appeal to the courts of the country within a certain time in order to have that question adjudicated. The wives and minor children of citizens are admitted. even if they are aliens. which is a change in the law. Penalties are imposed upon transportation companies for assisting immigrants. We have laws and regulations against the assisting of immigrants. but in some cases there are no penalties and in other cases the penalties are not regarded as high enough. We have changed the rule in regard to the admissibility of alien insane. They have been excludable heretofore. but there has been no penalty upon the steamships for bringing them in.
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