Speech #720142020

That is advisable for the general intercourse of business. It is also provided that those who come for the purpose of intemational business may stay indefinitely. but they do not become citizens. In making the 1924 act. an effort was made to define international merchants. and your then Committee on Immigration received a letter from the Department of State that the text as we had it never would apply to a merchant transferring his business and his residence from the treaty country to the United States. But after the act became a law. it was found that the treaty with China permitted that very thing. You will find a decision by the Supreme Court where it was decided that under our treaty merchants could come to the United States to be merchants in this country.