If this proviso. as it Is now proposed to amend it. were to become a law. then it would be unnecessary for a foreign Government seeking the punishment of a political offender to resort to extradition. That remedy. which would be futile In the case of a political offender. as has been indicated In the two cases to which I have just referred. would be superseded by a more simple and expeditious remedy. All that Russia. for instance. would have to do to reach its political refugees would be to show to an immigration inspector that the person In question was a participant in a movement which resulted in loss of life or the destruction of property and that. though political. the offense Involved the commission of a felony. But I go further than this learned gentleman. and say that the act of raising the revolt Is itself a felony. that if this language of the committee is allowed to stand in the bill then there is not a single man who has ever raised his hand in revolt who can hereafter come to the United States. because the act of revolt is an act of felony. not only under the laws of every country where the act may be committed but also under the laws of the United States. to which the man may come. such an act -is a felony. Mr.
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Generalization that anyone who has raised their hand in revolt cannot come to the United States because revolt is a felony.