THE BILL (H. R. 12199) TO REGULATE THE
IMMIGRATION OF ALIENS INTO

THE UNITED STATES,

WITH

STATEMENTS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE IN THE FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,

1902.

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Harvard University,
Dept. of Social Ethics.

Gift of
How. H. C. Lodge.

MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

TRANSFERRED FROM THE

LIBRARY OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ETHICS

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

December 20, 1902.

Ordered, That Senate Report No. 2119, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, together with the hearings before the Committee on Immigration in the first and second sessions of the Fifty-seventh Congress, be printed as a document, and that so many extra copies be printed as will not exceed in cost the sum of $500.

Attest:

CHARLES G. BENNETT,

Secretary.

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Senate Report No. 2119, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session.

REGULATION OF IMMIGRATION.

JUNE 27, 1902.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. PENROSE, from the Committee on Immigration, submitted the

following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 12199.]

The Committee on Immigration, to whom was referred House bill 12199, submit the following report:

With the exception of certain features which will be referred to further on in this report, this measure is a reenactment of existing laws upon the subject of immigration.

The necessity for such reenactment is due in part to the fact that, as a result of judicial decisions, as well as of administrative experience, the efficiency of such laws to accomplish the evident purpose of their enactment has been shown to be materially less than appeared to be the case at the time of such enactment, and therefore a new expression of the legislative will upon the subject of immigration has become desirable. These laws are, besides, scattered at wid intervals through the Statutes at Large, and extend over a considerable period of time; and to enable administrative officers to comprehend them in their entirety, free from the confusion from such conditions naturally arising in minds not accustomed to construing legislation consisting of original provisions, provisions amendatory thereof, and repealing acts, the measure reported embodies in itself a complete expression of the law on this subject as it now stands.

It is arranged, moreover, in such order, according to the specific subjects treated of, as to present those subjects in a natural sequence which further aids the administrative officers in an intelligent comprehension of each subject, and a consequently easy application thereof to the circumstances of each particular case under consideration by them. Upon the practical utility of such an arrangement it seems unnecessary to further elaborate.

The new legislation presented in the act is either amendatory of that in force or additional thereto, and the facts and reasoning therefrom in support of it in each instance will be given herein. The absence of comment on any portion of the measure indicates that such portion is, either in terms or in substance, existing law.

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