Chairman. I move to strike out the last word. I have just called up the attorney for the Immigration Bureau. and he says. as the gentleman from Delaware was saying as I went out. substantially. that the reason for that was a matter of bookkeeping as much as anything else. Along the borders of the other side we have ports of entry where these people come in. We have an arrangement with the railroad companies to collect this head tax and then the alien comes in. The railroad companies sometimes do not settle up for some time. make returns. and make their statement. Now. for the purpose of getting at the alien. thinking that they might lose him in the shuffle. they require him to make application. and I inquired further whether there was any objection to requiring that this blank be furnished the alien. and he said none whatever. so that the suggestion of the gentleman from Rhode Island . if it is satisfactory all around. can be agreed to.
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