I am advised that within the next 2 or 3 weeks there will be some shipping available for these women. They will have to wait until all the highpoint military men have returned. The bill will not delay the return of one soldier or sailor who hasthe points prescribed by the War or Navy Department. It merely relieves the wives of veterans of the necessity of waiting for days around the American consulate. and relieves the Government of the United States of the necessity of sending overseas a large number of publichealth officers to make a preexamination before application for visa. Mr. President.