I can not yield further. much as I would like to favor the genial gentleman from Washington. The Secretary of State did not so advise the committee. I understood he desired it. but I do not understand why. I know that the Commissioner General of Immigration testified that Secretary Hughes wired the Italian ambassador before this law wenl into effecthe was told before the 1st of Junethat the numbers which the steamlship companies then proposed to bring could not be admitted. In defiance of that statement by the Secretary of State they came. They either did not wait to get the answer or they came after receiving it.
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