Speech #630379357

I am reading from tables recently compiled and furnished to the committee by the Bureau of Immigration. They are brought up to date. Therefore in this country there is no antipathy. racial. social. political. or otherwise. toward the Jew. I think the best specimen of manhood. from the standpoint of moral and mental integrity and every other standpoint. that I ever knew in my life was Altamont Moses. of Sumter. who was a colleague of mine in the legislature. a man who loved the right and lived it. and from whom it emanatedthe highest type of American citizenship. Take the Hebrews as a class in this country. and in every department of industrial. social. and political life they will rank with any citizens we have. Therefore it can not be said that the committee has attempted in any way to restrict the Immigration of the Jew. We have attempted to bring this bill in conformity with our treaties and conventions and at the same time. so far as possible. to preserve the integrity and the highest possible scale of citizenship here. At the proper time. when we have proceeded further along. I propose to give the Senate the benefit of what research I have been able to make explanatory of the contested phases of this bill. In my opinion the measure is the result of as honest and as impartial work as was ever done in the execution of the duties of a committee. We have tried to restrict immigration