Speech #540118198

The pages of the RECORD show the whole case that has been presented today. The matter coming before us now is a conference report from committees of the two Houses. who have made an effort to reconcile differences and to present a bill such as we believe the country wants. and such as we think will meet the demands of the people. The country wants immigration restricted. The difference between my friend the chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and myself is that he is fearful these provisions are so rigid than they will keep out a class of undesirable immigrants. My position is that I want this class of undesirable immigrants kept out. He thinks that the keeping out of the wife of an immigrant may keep out the immigrant. I say if it does. so much the better for this country. if that immigrant is an undesirable immigrant. That is "the milk in the cocoanut."* This educational test is not childs play. It is put forward here for the very purpose of excluding undesirable immigration. The figures presented by the gentleman from Pennsylvania this morning disclose the fact that the educational test will exclude the very class of immigrants that we do not wish to come in. There were 68.000 of them last year. And of the 84.000 increase of immigration into this country for last year. 78.000 have come from those countries that give us our undesirable immigrants.