I offered an amendment which would have dealt in a comprehensive. and I think effective manner with the question of aliens as that question is linked with seamen. It effectually closed tile doors which now are surreptitiously opened and through which persons ineligible to citizenship or to entrance into the United States reach our shores. It was a proper complement to the immigration law to be integrated with the seamens act. The Senate. however. rejected the amendment which I offered. so that when the Senate bill went to conference. there were no provisions within it dealing with this question. Tle House bill. however. had a number of provisions dealing with seamen. but some of them were objectionable and were not accepted.
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