They had a right to believe that the law gave them a preference to bring in their husbands. However. the White House and the State Department. on the false philosophy of economy that they would aid labor. tell the people they were going to keep out 100 husbands in order to bring back prosperity. They applied the act of 1917. which under their interpretation means that where the consul believes a person is liable to become a public charge the consul does not have to give him a visa. Each of these wives of these one hundred and someodd men have cash capital running into the thousands of dollars. with steady employment at fixed incomes upwards to $120 per week. and they are prepared to show that their husbands will not under any ordinary and reasonable interpretation of facts become a public charge. yet the State Department. through its consuls abroad. have arbitrarily and without any reason refused to admit them. I just want to insert in the RcoRD at this point some statistics submitted to our committee by a witness who had tabulated the facts about just 165 American citizens wives who are trying to have their alien husbands join them in the United States.