Speech #630378450

I will read the recommendation of the Secretary: On page 42. lines a. 4. and 5. strike out " any alien" and " who shall enter the United States in violation of law " and insert. immediately following the latter. "any alien who shall have entered the United States In violation of this act or of any law of the United States. or who at the time of entry was a member of one or more of the classes excluded by law." The change thus effected In the arrangement of the words of the section is made in the interest of perspicuity. The. insertion of the phrase " or of any law of the United States" is for the purpose of restoring to the measure a provision which appeared in section 21 of the act of 1907. where It was placed in response to recommendations of the Commissioner General of Immigration (see his re: ports for 1905. p. 99. and 1906. pp. 89. 107). which phrase evidently was inadvertently omitted from this act. It was left out inadvertently in the House. It is a mere question of language. The committee put it in because the department requested it.