The children are fair-haired, with blue eyes,
and of great personal beauty, and would be exhibited with
pride by any American mother.
When the President came to Worcester he expressed a desire
to see the children. They came to meet him at my house, dressed
up in their best and glorious to behold. The President was
very much interested in them, and said when what he had done
was repeated in his presence, that he was just beginning to
get angry.
The result of this incident was that I had a good many similar
applications for relief in behalf of immigrants coming in
with contagious diseases. Some of them were meritorious,
and others untrustworthy. In the December session of 1902
I procured the following amendment to be inserted in the immigration
law.
"Whenever an alien shall have taken up his permanent residence
in this country and shall have filed his preliminary declaration
to become a citizen and thereafter shall send for his wife
or minor children to join him, if said wife or either of said
children shall be found to be affected with any contagious
disorder, and it seems that said disorder was contracted on
board the ship in which they came, such wife or children shall
be held under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury
shall prescribe until it shall be determined whether the disorder
will be easily curable or whether they can be permitted to
land without danger to other persons; and they shall not be
deported until such facts have been ascertained.
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