I rise to support the amendment of the gentleman from Illinois . The gentleman is mistaken. however. in his idea that the committee wanted to remove the time limit as to those committing offenses in this countrythe first offense. The police commissioner of New York was before the committee. and lie showed an alarming condition in the prisons in regard to aliens who commit crimes after they come here. and lie insisted that there should be no time limit as to the deportation of any of them this side of final citizenship. We believed. however. that it was a harsh rule. and every member of the committee believed that it would be a harsh rulethat if a man had come over here without any criminal record behind him being shown. an] had lived an upright life here for 5 or 10 or 15 years. and then was convicted of a crime. to deport him would be unjust. Hence. we did not agree with the suggestion of the police commissioner of New York. who showed us an alarming nuniber of records of prisoners who had come over and committed crimes after they had come here. But the suggestion was then made by the gentleman from Illinois that those who committed a second crime involving moral turpitude showed then a criminal heart and a criminal tendency. and they should then be deported. and the connittee unanimously -agreed witlh the gentleman thatthat ought to be done. The police commissioner wrote me a letter. in which lie stated that upon examination of the prison records lie found that there were a great many of those cases. of men who served out their sentences and then renewed their careers of crime.
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