Now. Mr. Speaker. the difference between the two bills is simply this: In the House bill the excluded class. the undesirable class. added to the undesirable classes already existing under our law. is that of male immigrants from 16 years of age who can not read or write their own language or the language of this country. The Senate amendment. so far as males are concerned. makes it apply to all males. even those above 65 years of age. As to females. the House allowed all females to come in. The Senate amendment allows only those females who are the wives or minor children of the males who shall come in. The House allowed only the parents of admissible immigrants who were incapable of read. ing or writing. The Senate bill allows grandparents as well. So you see there are some differences as to classes. and some differences as to age. The House bill also had the Corliss amendment. which applied to immigrants coining in from Canada along the Canadian border. The Senate bill makes no reference to that. The Senate amendment allows Cuban refugees during the currency of the pending disorder there to come into this country. The House said nothing about that. Now. it will be fully in the power of the conference committee to reconcile these differences of the two Houses and to report to the House a bill which they can adopt. and which will be the law of this land and will meet the demands of the people.
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