And the particular point I am making is that.: notwithstanding that provision. which the Senator claims is favorable to the admission of the Jew. the provision of the bill I am now discussing will absolutely bar from our shores every Jew who comes from any place in Russia between the fiftieth and one hundred and twentieth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich. That vast area. over 2.000 miles in width. stretches from the south line of Russia to the Arctic Circle. and embraces all of central Russia and fully onehalf of the entire territory of the Russian Empire. I read the language of the bill. It is provided that no emigrants shall be admitted tothe United States who shall come from the "islands not possessed by the United States adjacent to the Continent of Asia. situate south of the twentieth parallel of latitude north. west of the one hundred and sixtieth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich..and north of the tenth parallel of latitude south. or who are natives of any country. province. or dependency situate on the Continent of Asia west of the one hundred and tenth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich and east of the fiftieth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich. except that portion of said territory situate between the fiftieth and the sixtyfourth meridians of idngitude east from Greenwich and the twentyfourth and thirtyeighth parallels of latitude north." Without the map the language of the bill is meaningless." but with the map which is before me I am able to state that the bill excludes all those who shall emigrate from that great interior of Russia. which stretches from a line drawn north from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic regions to a line drawn north from Lake Baikal. The people of that vast domain are absolutely barred from entering the United States.
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