May I say to the Senator from Maryland that this is purely an emergency measure. Its operation is covered in the period of a year. It is intended simply to give Congress time to take up the whole question of immigration deliberately and to devise additions to our present law that will result in a better selection and a better distribution of immigrants throughout the United States after the year 1921. The bill is simply to meet the present emergency. It is very important that we should pass it. and we are now so near the close of the session that unless we begin to do as we have done in this case. and set special times for votes on such important measures. it will be impossible to pass them.
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