Mr. Speaker. as shown by the conference report on the Senate amendment to H. R. 14461. the conferees of the House and the Senate are in. agreement on a plan to restrict temporarily immigration to the United States. We have now begun a yesorno proposition. The matter now embraced in H. R. 14401 is such that those in the House who believe it to be for the best interest of the United States to temporarily restrict immigration to the United States for a period of 15 months. beginning April 1. may vote for the measure. Such a vote will mean that for that period the number of persons who may come to the United States as immigrants from the countries in Europe will be at the maximum about 443.200. Persons coming temporarily as visitors or for business purposes are not to be included in the count. Further. there are certain exempted classes. such as professional actors. teachers. ministers. who are to be counted In making the maximum number. but when that number is reached they can be exempted and still come in. So the maximum from any country is not an ironclad maximum. although it positively and absolutely fixes the maximum number who may come as immigrants from any country during the time the measure is in effect. The bill as finally agreed upon restricts immigration to 3 per cent of immigrants from certain countries in Europe. the 3 per cent base being determined by the number of persons from those countries who were in the United States as shown by the census of 1910. M. SABATH.
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