Mr. "President. to call attention to a particular situation which calls urgently for the consideration of the immigration bill. I refer to the illegal and very active immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States. par�ticularly over the border line between British -Columbia and the State iof -Washington. This immigration bill codifies the immigration laws. It -changes their administration to some extent. I have ventured to offer and have printed an amendment to the bill applying to the Immigration SerVice the same principle that bas been found so :salutary in the administration -of the War Department. intended to do away as far as possible with bureaucrats :and bureaucracy. providing that the chiefs -of bu.reaus in the Immigration Service and all officials. except the .Commissioner General of Immigrationwho is appointed as a -matter .of political patronage--slIl .be detailed from the field service. and that at the -end of four years they shall -return to .the field serVice. Now. it is thought by men of experience and contact with the problem with which our peoIjle are confronted in this unfair Competition of -Chinese and other foreign labor that that amend.ment would -put -the Immigration Service upon a more efficient basis. that it would put it in charge of men with practical knowledge iof these problems. and that :It would do away with -some of the .conditions Nvhich seem -to a "man -up a tree" very mysterious.
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