Mr. Chairman. the legislation proposed In this bill does not provide for overseas examination In any full or final sense. It does provide that a count of those receiving immigration certificates shall be made and the number of !iuch certificates so limited as to reduce to a minimum. if not to prevent. the coming of immigrants In excess of quotas. If it operates as the committee hopes It will. there will be fewcomparatively. at leastwho are turned back at our ports merely because they are in excess of the quotas admissible from their countries. That will eliminate some measure of the rush and the difficulty and distress attendant upon the coming of greater numbers than can in any event be legally admitted to the United States. If the law Is enforced. an excessive number will not start from foreign ports. The bill also provides that prospective immigrants must submit a verified statement In the form of an answered questionnaire to the United States consul who vises their passports. That questionnaire will cover pretty fully the questions determining their admissibility or Inadmissibility. If the questionnaire or other information discloses that they are probably inadmissible. it will be the duty of the consul to refue an immigration certificate and a vise of their passports. It is hoped thereby to eliminate many who are plainly iradmissible and prevent their coming to the United States to be rejected at the ports and sent back home. It is not contemplated that we will erect immigration stations at foreign ports. We have no right to do hant without the consent of foreign countries. as already inlicated. and foreign countries have not consented for us to do it. For other reasons. some of which have already been suggested. that would not be a workable arrangement.
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