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Show pram MEASURE IS pussyf HOUSE Gives President Broad Powers Pow-ers in Restricting Movement Move-ment of Aliens. WASHINGTON, May 4. The house to-day to-day passed the administration passport bill requiring all persons entering the United States to have a government permit per-mit and giving the president broad powers pow-ers in restricting entrance to and exit from American ports. ! During debate on the bill Representative Representa-tive Flood of Virginia, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, declared hundreds hun-dreds of American citizens now in Germany Ger-many are disloyal to the United States and that this country knows they are disloyal. dis-loyal. One of the purposes of the measure, meas-ure, he said, was to prevent their return and probable spying on the war activities activi-ties of the country. The bill now goes to the senate. An attempt to amend the bill to exempt American citizens going to Canada and Canadian citizens coming into the United States from being required to have permits per-mits was defeated, a? was a proposal to limit its provisions to persons leaving the country. Chairman Flood of the foreign affairs committee told the house that President Wilson and the departments of state andj justice had indorsed the measure ancT that two days ago the president telephoned tele-phoned to Chairman Pou of the house rules committee, urging action. |