Mr. Speaker. I traveled as a member of the Immigration Commission. as did my friend from Alabama Mr. BUr.NETT. in Europe. through the Jewish pale that has been ravaged by this war five tines. and I see now that the Russians are going over that devastated. desolated region again at Czernowitz. If this bill passes unamended. 25 per cent of those refugees from Poland. that according to all the great traditions of our free Alnerica ought to be let in here. will be barred out. because thlat is about the proportion that call not read. and although there is an attempt at exemption of those peoplea piece of favoritism to the Hebrew peopleif the bill is not. amended that favoritism will not be worthI a snap of the finger. That is the kind of a bill we are taking up. and taking it up at a time when the immigrating peoples are being killed far more rapidly than they ever immigrated to tills country. What was the net immigration in 1915? Roughly speaking. it was something like 3.000. It will be 10 or 15 years after this war before we have something like normal immigration. and for the first two or three years after the war there will be more people going out of this country to look up friends and estates and matters abroad than will come in. There is no need of haste about this matter. I do not know how much time it will take. two or three days. possibly.
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