Pa. There we have 26.940 men registered for military service under the selectivedraft law. and of these 9.570 claimed the right to exemption upon the ground that they are aliens. More than 33 per cent of the population of my district. therefore. will escape military duty because they. are foreign born and have not taken out naturalization papers. but an investigation by the sheriff and the exemption board showed that more than about 95 per cent of these men have been here the required length of time and could have taken out citizenship papers if they had so desired. That indicates that these men are living in our country. not. as the gentleman from Ohio days. without the right to acquire and own property. but. on the contrary. they have every right that an American citizen has to own and acquire and sell property. and they are today standing on the streets when our men are marching off to war. and are smilingly saying that they are goIng to get the jobs of the young American men who are going to war. This is an outrage upon American citizens. and it is up to this Congress to pass some law to remedy that evil.Mr. Speaker. there has been a bill introduced for consideration known as H. R. 5667. reported from the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. entitled "A bill to provide for the deportation of certain aliens. and for other purposes." one that Is exceedingly important and should be considered and either enacted in the form it is presented by the House committee or else amended and passed. It appears that this bill aims at an existing evil. which is exceedingly pressing throughout the country. Under the selectivedraft law. which is entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States." which was approved on the 18th of May. 1917. it is provided in section 3 as follows: Third.
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They are smilingly saying that they are going to get the jobs of the young American men who are going to war.