Mr. Chairman. I want to suggest to the lawyers on the committee in a friendly way that section 2 makes a broad general bar of immigration. subject to certain exceptions. Then you state those exceptions that cover nearly every class the present laws do. If you consider it as a lawyer. how can you escape the conclusion that Congress had taken up the whole subject matter and rewritten the law and stated that at the expiratio of one year or two years there shall be no law? That is my humble interpretation as a lawyer. and I suggest to the lawyers on the committee that when you get to section 14 you make your expressed intent clear. and that is for two years your present immigration laws shall not control so far as the provisions set out in this particular act are concerned and at the end of the two years or 14 months that your present laws go into operation again. If that is the meaning. why not make that declaration by a clear specific provision of the statute? If you do not do it. gentlemen. you will be charged LX16 with having deliberately placed upon the statute books a sham and a hypocrisyand they will use stronger language than the language I have usedthat the bill at best is but a "French gesture." and in voting for it I shall vote for it on the theory that its expressed intent meets with my general convictions upon the subject.
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