If the Senator from Utah will permit me. it occurred to me that he had not addressed himself particularly to the point raised by the Senator from Maryland . who. as I understood. did not. as does the Senator from Alabama . question the wisdom of the policy expressed in section 7. but questioned the language employed in order to carry out that policy. I am inclined myself to think that the language ought to be modified. It reads: No vessel shall. unless such vessel is in distress. bring into a port of the United States as a member of her crew any alien who. if he were applying for admission to the United States as an immigrant. would be subject to exclusion* under subdivision (c) of section 13 of the immigration act of 1924. I am of the view that that is all that need be said. and that the subsequent language embarrasses the operation of the act to carry out that policy. That would exclude the Chinaman or the Japanese under the provisions of subdivision (c) of section 13. because they would not be subject to admission under that section. which reads: No alien ineligible to citizenship shall be admitted to the United States unless such alienAnd then it gives the excepted clause.
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