I venture to say. than what we can hope for from tariff or currency or bankruptcy bills. I think it involves matters that lie at the very root of American civilization. It has grown out of a change in the character of our immigration within the last ten or fifteen years. The races that built up this country come in diminishing numbers. New races. utterly alien. come in everincreasing numbers. What we now seek to accomplish by the pending bill is to sift this immigration and restrict it. to choose among those immigrants. -.I believe it to be. as I have said. a great and useful measure. I ask only that we shall have a vote upon it in the Senate. It has been discussed in every stage. both in the House and in the Senate. on conference report. and in every other way.
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