2 This bill would extend for 1 and 3 years, respectively, from the date of its approval, the times for commencing and completing the construction of the bridge across the Mississippi River, at or near Winona, Minn., authorized by act approved June 28, 1938, to be built by the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, jointly or separately. The bill is without objection so far as this Department is concerned. Upon reference of this matter to the Bureau of the Budget, as required by Budget Circular 344, the Director thereof advised the Department of Agriculture under date of June 23, 1939, that there would be no objection on the part of that office to the submission of this report to Congress. Sincerely, M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary. PROVIDING ADDITIONAL ALLOCATION FOR CARRYING OUT PROVISIONS OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 130 JUNE 29, 1939.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. COCHRAN, from the Committee on Accounts, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. Res. 235] The Committee on Accounts, to whom was referred the resolution (H. Res. 235) to provide an additional allocation for carrying out the provisions of House Resolution 130, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendment and recommend that the resolution as amended, do pass. The amendment is as follows: In line 4, strike out the figures "$125,000" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "$100,000". O 1st Session No. 994 SUPPRESSION OF CERTAIN SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES JUNE 29, 1939.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. HOBBS. from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5138] The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5138) to make unlawful attempts to overthrow the Government of the United States; to require licensing of civilian military organizations; to make unlawful attempts to interfere with the discipline of the Army and Navy; to require registration and fingerprinting of aliens; to enlarge the jurisdiction of the United States circuit court of appeals in certain cases; and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill, as amended, do pass. The amendments are as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following: TITLE I SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the personnel of the Army or the Navy or the Coast Guard of the United States, to advise, counsel, urge, or solicit any member thereof to disobey the laws or regulations governing the Army or the Navy or the Coast Guard, or to disobey the lawful orders of a superior, or to publish or distribute any book, pamphlet, paper, print, article, letter, or other writing which advises, counsels, urges, or solicits any member of the Army or the Navy or the Coast Guard of the United States to disobey the laws or regulations governing such military or naval forces, or to disobey the lawful orders of a superior. SEC. 2. Any book, pamphlet, paper, print, article, letter, or other writing of the character described in section 1 of this Act may be taken from any house or other place in which it may be found, or from any person in whose possession it may be, under a search warrant issued pursuant to the provisions of title XI of the Act entitled "An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes", approved June 15, 1917 (40 Stat. 228; U. S. C., title 18, ch. 18). SEC. 3. The term "member of the Army" as used herein shall include all members of the Army of the United States as defined in section 1 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended (48 Stat. 153; U. S. C., title 10, sec. 2), when in active Federal service. SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to attempt to commit or to conspire to commit any of the acts prohibited by any provisions of this title. SEC. 5. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this title shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten years or by a fine of not more than $10,000, or both, and, in addition thereto, any alien who violates any of the provisions of this title shall be forthwith deported in the manner provided by existing law immediately upon his release from the custody of the court in which he is tried. No person who violates any provision of this title shall be eligible for employment by the United States Government or by any corporation the stock of which is wholly owned by the United States Government, for a period of five years after his conviction. TITLE II SEC. 6. (a) Section 19 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 889; U. S. C., title 8. sec. 155), as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 19. At any time within five years after entry, any alien who at the time of entry was a member of one or more of the classes excluded by law; any alien who shall have entered or who shall be found in the United States in violation of this Act, or in violation of any other law of the United States; any alien who at any time after entry knowingly, and for gain, shall have encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien to enter, or try to enter the United States in violation of law; any alien engaged at any time after entry in espionage for a foreign government or international political agency seeking to change the character of the Government of the United States or influence its policies; any alien who has at any time after entry been convicted of violation of a State narcotic law; any alien who at any time after entry possesses or carries any weapon without legal authority which shoots or is designed to shoot automatically or semiautomatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger, or any firearm that has a muffler or silencer, or a weapon commonly called a sawed-off shotgun; any alien who at any time after entry shall be found advocating or teaching the unlawful destruction of property, or advocating or teaching anarchy, or the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States or of all forms of law or the assassination of public officials; any alien who within five years after entry becomes a public charge from causes not affirmatively shown to have arisen subsequent to landing; except as hereinafter provided, any alien who is sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude, committed at any time after the entry of the alien to the United States; any alien who shall be found an inmate of or connected with the management of a house of prostitution or practicing prostitution after such alien shall have entered the United States, or who shall receive, share in, or derive benefit from any part of the earnings of any prostitute; any alien who manages or is employed by, in, or in connection with any house of prostitution or music or dance hall or other place of amusement or resort habitually frequented by prostitutes, or where prostitutes gather, or who in any way assists any prostitute or protects or promises to protect from arrest any prostitute; any alien who shall import or attempt to import any person for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; any alien who, after being excluded and deported or arrested and deported as a prostitute, or as a procurer, or as having been connected with the business of prostitution or importation for prostitution or other immoral purposes in any of the ways hereinbefore specified, shall return to and enter the United States; any alien convicted and imprisoned for a violation of any of the provisions of section 4 hereof; any alien who was convicted, or who admits the commission, prior to entry, of a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; at any time within three years after entry, any alien who shall have entered the United States by water at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officials, or by land at any place other than one designated as a port of entry for aliens by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, or at any time not designated by immigration and naturalization officials, or who enters without inspection, shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported: Provided, That the marriage to an American citizen of a female of the sexually immoral classes, the exclusion or deportation of which is prescribed by this Act, shall not invest such female with United States citizen |