Mr. Speaker. owing to the length .of tinme this subject of Immigration has been seriously consider~ed by the Congress of the United Statesfor several years. and especially during this present Congressit must be recognized that it is one of the most. serious questions confronting th6 American people. . It must also be i.ecognized that the situation with reference to immigration to this country is already serious and grave enough. I believe that the majority of this Colm.res recognizes that the imm.igration question is the mosf complex and difficult one that confronts us. The Congress of the United States has already excluded the Chinese.. Why not other undesirables? In this bill it has undertaken to restrict immigration sensibly. fairly. and sanely. and thereby try to bring about a -condition -that will be to the advantage of the laboring people of the country as .well as to the. health. the prosperity. the happiness. and the mental and moral elevation of all of our people. Nothing in this immigration bill or in this amendment offers any opportunity for an unjust exercise of power. The gentleman from Illinois brought strongly to your attention. as did a paper which was laid upon all your desks this morning. the possibility that the use of power in this instance might be unjust. bit it can not be so claimed. for the reason that the exercise of power in this particular instance is the exercise of power in the interest of the American people. in the interest of her own people first. and then justly excluding those whom you and I could not invite to our shores. It is said that an African student in one of our American colleges who went abroad could not come back.
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