In a letter to the Committee read today, Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State, pointed out that great difficulties would be encountered in setting up a machinery for the selection of immigrants in a foreign country unless some special arrangement were entered into with that country. The installing of such a system without ## consent would be in derogation of the supremacy of that sovereign within its own territory.
John W. Davis, former Ambassador to England, expressed the belief that no agreement was necessary to permit the examination of applicants for visas in foreign countries as that is incidental to the right to issue visas which is already protected by treaties.
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