If the gentleman will allow me to proceed. I was trying to explain to the House that under existing law. if an allen goes abroad today. he goes at his own risk. When he comes back we say. "Are you diseased. are you a contract laborer. are you a pauper?" Now comes the gentleman from New York . who proposes that we shall no lbilger be permitted to question the returning alien. lie insists that we must give an alien who has for a few years resided here the same privileges as we accord to a citizen of the United States returning homeward. If the alilen is diseased. if he has tuberculosis. if he is a contract laborer. we must nevertheless adnit him to our shores.
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