In other words. it would provide for penalties by a statute we passed this month. for something that a citizen of this country had done previously. The only thing that would prevent. under the terms of the proposal offered by the gentleman from California. denationalizing of persons who declared their loyalty to Germany in the First World War. would be the statute of limitations. But this very proposal is an illustration of the thing which the Committee on Immigration and Naturalfzation has found out. namely. that you cannot go too far without being unconstitutional. So I want you to viiw all of these proposals from the standpoint of whether or notthey will destroy the very intent that the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization had when they reported out this bill. I know personally that many members of that committee wanted to go further. but after hearing the testimony and learning the effects of certain proposals they decided that this was the only feasible. practical. and constitutional thing to do at the present time.
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