The REcoRD and recollection of Members will verify the statement that Members of the House understood that it would thereafter be unnecessary to validate violations of the law. I will insert a statement by the Assistant Secretary of Labor that Congressmen send their appeals up there In bundles by the armful: Just as I was trying to get out some Congressmans stenographer came in with an armful of them. and I want through them hurriedly.. Some came within the rule we have been trying to lay down. others did not.-(Hearings Immigration Committee. Serial 1B. December 19. 1921. p. 224.) When the Secretary of Labor or his assistant Instead of being governed by the law Is governed by appeals of Congressmen or relatives of the alien or influential politicians and let in inadmissible aliens who are excluded by the law. you can not lame the country for laughing at the law as a farce.
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