Yes. that was in 1925. 1 have telegraphed to the wardens of the Federal penitentiaries. and today received responses from two of them. In the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary. in the State of Washington. the population today is 673 prisoners. and of that number 111 are alien narcotic convicts. They should have been deported. It should not have been necessary to convict them in courts of record and to give them long sentences in Federal penitentiaries. there to be fed and housed at Government expense. In the Leavenworth (Kans.) Federal Penitentiary the population today Is 3.093. the total number of aliens tinder the drug act. that Is to say. alien narcotic violators. is 102. The bill places narcotic violators in the same category with white slave violators. so that they may be proceeded against directly on a warrant Issued by the Secretary of Labor and arrested. If they have a defense they are permitted to make It with the aid of attorneys. but the experience of the department during all these years in regard to white slave offenders is that when the Government once gets them they have no defense. they are guilty every time. I have examined the records for years back in regard to white slavery deportations. and in my opinIon there has not been a mistake made. This law applies that same short process to the narcotic violator.
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