If the gentleman will cast his eye upon line 22 he will find the wordsPersons who can not become eligible under existing law to become citizens of the United States by naturalization. No one except a black man or a white man can be naturalized. This proposed amendment would enlarge the scope of the clause excepting certain classes of men of other colors. These exceptions correspond substantially with the exceptions included in the Chinese exclusion act. The word "graduate" engineer would not describe the status of a man educated as an engineer in India. Perhaps it would be appropriate to amend by the insertion of the word "professional" before the word "engineer." I do not know whether it would or would not be appropriate. I suggest this amendment because I find that the Bureau of Immigration. which prepared the list of professional occupations to be excepted from exclusion. suggested the inclusion of "engineers." with the following explanation: The term " engineer" Is here used. of course. in a professional sense. The committee felt that there was a doubt whether the word "engineer" would be interpreted as being used in the professional sense. So we inserted the word "civil." Would it not be possible to specify the kind of engineers whom we might admit as exceptions to the clause excluding all persons who can never become naturalized Americans?
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