The House was considering in the Committee of the Whole a bill to deport aliens convicted of crime. An amendment was offered to exclude from the operation of the bill all aliens whose property had been seized by the Alien Property Custodian and whose property rights were then in process of adjudication. Mr. Towner. the Chairman of the committee. now Governor General of one of our insular possessions. held that the subject before the House was the deportation of all aliens convicted of crime and the proposition to exempt those awaiting litigation simply" proposed to remove one class of the general subject under consideration. And he properly held the amendment to be germane and in order. Now.
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