Under the conference report the wife who could not be permitted under the provisions of the bill to land. or to be sent for by the husband. can be brought here without inflicting an injury upon any individualin this country. because the report itself provides that the act shall not go into effect until the 1st day of July. and during the six months intervening every possible contingency that can be suggested may be provided for by husbands availing themselves of that postponement of the operation of the act. So I am satisfied that the bill as it stands is a good one. and the members of the House will come to the conclusion. I think. that if the educational test is to be applied as it is here applied ib will inflict the les damage and the least evil that can possibly happen. and at the same time exclude undesirable immigrants. It is no small matter when we reflect upon the fact of their coming here at the increase of 33 per cent a year. with our own labor out of employment to the extent of one and a half millions of men today. and the condition daily becoming worse. These men out of work have for their only hope of relief this appeal to this Congress. [Here the hammer fell.]
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