That is the gentlemans opinion. and. thank God. it is not mine. because I am going to read you what the Supreme Court of the United States has to say on the subject. My bill provides only for those convicted of crime. and "crime" means "felony." A violation of the prohibition law is a misdemeanor. and never has been anything else. There was a caseand that was what I expected to get out of the gentleman from New York when he roseof Rousseau against Weedin. reported in Two Hundred and Eightyfourth Federal Reports. 565. where a man who ran a house of ill fame in which he sold liquor illegally. as a business. was convicted under a Washington State statute of being a "jointist." that is. a man who ran a "joint." The court said that because the "joint" he ran was of ill repute and running for the open sale of liquor in violation of the Washington State statute he could be deported. That is the only case in our Nations history. and it was not a mere case of possessing liquor. such as they hypothesize. Therefore. there is no case in the past to be resurrected. if there were it would be only a misdemeanor case and not a "crime" as this bill reads.
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