We have no place for that sort now. Few of our factories are working full time. These immigrants come here and settle in the large and congested centers. where the problem of housing isalready acute. We are not getting the class of immigrants that we did 10. 20. 30. or 40 years ago. Most of those wh came prior to. 1900 went- onto farms or took up land. They became. producers. while those that we receive now. or at least 80 per cent of them. will become consumers and will contribute comparatively little towird the material development of this country. -The committee has gone into this question very carefully. .There have been extensive hearings on this proposition in both the Sixtyfifth and the Sixtysixth Congresses Everyone who wished to. be heard appeared before the committee. both for and in opposition to the proposed bill. A measure similar to this was introduced in the Sixtyfifth Congress and reported out favorably by the Immigration Committee The bill reported out at that time provided for a suspension of four years. Mr. Powers. of Kentucky. who was then a Member of Congress. and myself submitted a minority report- wherein we favored reducing the term from four to two years.
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Immigrants are now consumers rather than producers, unlike immigrants of the past.