Everyone can hear what is being said. and the padrone can tip the wink if incorrect answers are being given. What Is the next procedure? If one of the inspectors thinks that some of the answers given are suspicious. the immigrant goes before a board of special inquiry. consisting of three men. who. I submit. are as likely to be humane as are the Members of this House. It is true- that those three men under the law must conduct that second examination in private. They take the immigrant apart. where his padrone can not be on hand. where no one in the crowd can signal the answer to some atwkward question. That is the reason for the private inquiry. It is prescribed in order that on the second examination the immigrant shall be segregated from the people who have been coaching him to evade our laws.
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