Speech #730107319

Here is what the Secretary of State said when a similar bill was before the Senate in 1932. Mr. Carr. the Assistant Secretary of State. testified as follows: Approximately 1.000.000 alien seamen arrive in the United States ports during a fiscal year and are examined by the Public Health Service and the Immigration Bureau officials. Of this number. the record of desertions as shown by the figures of the Bureau of Immigration during the past 5 years has been as follows: 192627 -------------------------------------------23.447 192728 ------------------------------------------------ 12.357 192829 --------------------------------------------11.314 192930 --------------------------------------------9 117 193031 ---------------------------------------------3.341 Mr. Carr goes on to say that of that number approximately one third remain in the United States and two thirds reship on other vessels. so that the total number remaining in the United States in the year 193031 by virtue of the desertion clause. which I have referred to. was approximately 1.114.