Gentlemen. the Commissioner General of Im-. migration told the Committee on Immigration yesterday that every steamship company. both in the United States and rbroad. published and advertised for these people to come. saying that they would land them In the United States. He lead a cablegramn from the center of Italy from the Commissioner of Immigration asking if they could bring these people In. and before they ever started from their homes they were advised they could not do It. but notwithstanding that while the Italian Government had refused to give passports to these people during the last year. they gave them these passports. and the steamship company advised them to come. their friends advised them to come. and told them they would see that they landed In the United States. They are here. and now the Congross ig asked to give the steamship companies another opportunity to break down our immigration laws. another opportunity to beat the will of the American people. another opportunity for these governments who said they were going to send their people here and would do it whether we allowed it or not to carry out their will. and for that purpose we are asked to pass this kind of a resolution. The Supreme Court in deciding this case and reversing the decision of the lower court said it was too plain for argunient or discussion that the decision of the lower court was wrong. but one judgment on a writ of habeas corpus let all these people in on behalf of the steamship company. and another similar writ after the act just passed goes into operation. vith a steamship company having a thousand of these people. will operate in the same way. and they can all enter the United States. This bill is so broad and loosely drawn that no one can tell what it means.
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