Speech #670011322

President. I ask unanimous consent that the formal reading of the bill be dispensed with. I will state that this bill is the same bill identically which passed the Senate at the last session restricting immigration to 3 per cent of those who were resident aliens within the territory of the United States according to the census of 1910. That bill passed the Senate with only two dissenting votes. The bill was introduced in the Senate early In this session by the Senator from Vermont . This same bill which passed Congress at the last session was also introduced in the House at this session. and which I shall call the old bill. In the House the old bill was changed by making certain exceptions which enlargedthe nunbers who would come in during this emergency period. The Senate Committee on Immigration considered those exceptions. and they deemed it better to report the old. Senate bill as an amendment to the House bill. and therefore the form in which the bill comes before the Senate is as an amendment to the House bill and is the same bill which was passed at the last session of Congress. It does not seem to me necdssary. unless some of the Senators wish information. to go into any debate upon the bill.