The State Department will send a few to the consul general at Loidon. so that he. on telegraphic request from consuls in any other country. can send Dutch certificates to them for issuance to parties there if they are otherwise admissible. Each month the proper consignment of those certificates will go out. No Immigrant can get one of them until. by written application and after physical examination by a designated physician. he has shown that he is fully qualified under our general immigration laws. that his prison record is all right. that his health is all right. that he knows how to read and write. and that he has enough means to keep himself from being a public charge when lie reaches here. In other words. the consuls. as part of their diplomatic function or consular function. will do practically everything that is done by the examiners at Ellis Island today. and we believe confidently that that method will result in cutting down the number of rejections ar our ports by more than 90 per cent. Instead of sending back 20.000 people. as we did last year. we hope and believe that the number rejected at our ports will be less than 2.000.
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