Chairman. I rise in opposition to the amendment. Let me say that the language in question has been in the immigration law since 1.917. and that the Department of Labor informed me yesterday that in the period of 18 months just .4 cases were allowed to enter under that provision. During that time the immigrant who arrived has been required to establish these facts to the satisfaction of the Assistant Secretary of Labor. There have been cases on appeal which have come up. and the Assistant Secretary of Labor has not ruled allowing some of these immigrant girls to come into the United States when that plea was made. and the commissioner at Ellis Island knows that some of these girls who were returned committed suicide on the ships which were taking them back on account of rulings which were made in respect to their coming over here. One of those girls was a Rumanian girl who came over from the other side. No matter what our law may be upon this particular subject. it is the administrative officers who will have to determine what its meaning is.
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